1989 : the struggle to create post-Cold War Europe /
There are unique periods in history when a single year witnesses the total transformation of international relations. The year 1989 was one such crucial watershed. This book uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third paperback printing, with a new afterword by the author. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2014. |
| Series: | Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | There are unique periods in history when a single year witnesses the total transformation of international relations. The year 1989 was one such crucial watershed. This book uses previously unavailable sources to explore the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from many different locations, including Moscow, Berlin, Bonn, Paris, London, and Washington, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. Mary Sarotte explains that while it was clear past a certain point that the Soviet Bloc would crumble, there was nothing inevitable about what would follow. A wide array of political players--from leaders like Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, George H.W. Bush, and James Baker, to organizations like NATO and the European Community, to courageous individual dissidents--all proposed courses of action and models for the future. In front of global television cameras, a competition ensued, ultimately won by those who wanted to ensure that the "new" order looked very much like the old. Sarotte explores how the aftermath of this fateful victory, and Russian resentment of it, continue to shape world politics today. Presenting diverse perspectives from the political elite as well as ordinary citizens, 1989 is compelling reading for anyone who cares about international relations past, present, or future <p>"1989" explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, "1989" describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe.<p>This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO s post-Cold War expansion." |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 21, 2014). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Awards: | Winner, Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize 2010, Award of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Co-winner, 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Winner, 2009 DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European Studies, awarded by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1322110948 1400852307 9781322110943 9781400852307 |