Post Wall, Post Square : How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989 / Kristina Spohr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spohr, Kristina, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (785 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A landmark global history that makes us rethink how the Cold War ended and our present era was born This book offers a bold new interpretation of the revolutions of 1989, showing how a new world order was forged—without major conflict. Based on extensive archival research, Kristina Spohr attributes this in large measure to determined diplomacy by a handful of international leaders, who engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War. She offers a major reappraisal of George H. W. Bush and innovative assessments of Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, as well as Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand. But, she argues, Europe’s transformation must be understood in global context. By contrasting events in Berlin and Moscow with the brutal suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing, the book reveals how Deng Xiaoping pushed through China’s very different Communist reinvention. Here is an authoritative yet highly readable exploration of the crucial hinge years of 1989–1992 and their consequences for today’s world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps

Introduction

1 Reinventing Communism: Russia and China

2 Toppling Communism: Poland and Hungary

3 Reuniting Germany, Dissolving Eastern Europe

4 Securing Germany in the Post-Wall World

5 Building a Europe ‘Whole and Free’

6 ‘A New World Order’

7 Russian Revolution

8 ‘Dawn of a New Era’

9 Glimpsing a ‘Pacific Century’

Epilogue

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

0-300-25236-6

OCLC:

1143648851