Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Assessing the Kohl Legacy, Clay Clemens; Chapter 2 Helmut Kohl, ‘The Vision Thing’ and Escaping the Semi-Sovereignty Trap, William E. Paterson; Chapter 3 Chancellor Kohl as Strategic Leader: The Case of Economic and Monetary Union, Kenneth Dyson; Chapter 4 The Art of Power: The ‘Kohl System’, Leadership and Deutschlandpolitik, Karl-Rudolf Korte; Chapter 5 Part y Management as a Leadership Resource: Kohl and the CDU/CSU, Clay Clemens; Chapter 6 Political Leadership in Western Europe: Helmut Kohl in Comparative Context, Alistair Cole; Chapter 7 Opposition in the Kohl Era: The SPD and the Left, Gerard Braunthal;