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1989
THE STRUGGLE TO CREATE POST-COLD WAR EUROPE |
| By: |
Mary Elise Sarotte, Mary Elise Sarotte |
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| ISBN 10: |
0691163715 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780691163710 |
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| Publisher: |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 October, 2014 |
| Edition: |
Updated edition with a New and Revised New Afterword |
| Series: |
Princeton Studies in International History and Politics |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
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.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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20 halftones. 4 maps. |
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US |
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Princeton University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American
Winner of DAAD Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in German and European
Joint winner of Marshall Shulman Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East
Commended for The Financial Times [FT.com]'s "Books of the Year" 2009
Short-listed for CHOICE Magazine's Outstanding Academic Titles 2010 (United |
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