Bingley found this: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.03.01,
Jan-Wilhelm Beck, ‘Germania’ –
‘Agricola’ : Zwei Kapitel zu
Tacitus' zwei kleinen Schriften: Untersuchungen zu ihrer Intention u.
Datierung sowie zur Entwicklung ihres Verfassers, “Spudasmata” 68. Hildesheim: Olms Verlag, 1998. Pp. 185. ISBN 3-487-10742-2. (Two chapters on two of Tacitus’ small miscellany writings: Analyses of their intent and dating as well as of the development of their author.)
The reviewer writes:
Scholarly debate has in general divided between those who see the Germania as a work urging conquest and those who see it as arguing for indifference. B. on the other hand explains it as a non-policy document, likening it instead to a sort of white paper, such as might have been prepared for the English Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the Germans of a reunited Germany after the fall of the Berlin wall.
