The German Green party is in the midst of a major identity crisis -- struggling between the ideals that have been the motor of its very existence and the pragmatism required of a junior coalition partner of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's (barely) left of center government. A new generation of Greens, arguably more interested in holding on to power and expanding electoral support among a generation of new voters that shows more interest in professional advancement, wealth and security than their counterparts one or two decades ago, has emerged. They have just released a position paper that calls for a pragmatic shift to the center of the political landscape, away from the radical calls of the early Greens back in the 1980s for a nonviolent, just, safer and environmentally responsible society.