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Zusammenfassung The collapse of socialist regimes in eastern Europe! between 1989 and 1991! transformed Europe's international politics. But it proved far easier to dismantle the iron curtain than to clear away the entrenched assumptions of political leaders and foreign policy advisers across western Europe.
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Maps Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Rethinking European Order: West-European Responses, 1989-97 - Introduction; W.Wallace Concepts of European Order After the Cold War: In with the Old, Out with the New; A.Forster & R.Niblett Central Power, Central Debate?: The German Foreign Policy Community and the Rethinking of European Order; H.Mayer France and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Resisting Change; R.Niblett The British Response: Denial and Confusion?; A.Forster & W.Wallace Coming to Terms with Germany: The Slow and Arduous Adjustment of Dutch Foreign Policy after 1989; S.Everts An End to Neutrality?: Continuity and Change in Swedish Foreign Policy; L.Aggestam Spain and European Order After the Cold War; R.Niblett Struggling to Change: The Italian State and the New Order; C.Hill & F.Andreatta Conclusions: Strategic Change and Incremental Adjustment; W.Wallace Index
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'This is an excellent book, in some ways an important book. It offers multiple riches to the international relations, security studies and European studies communities...The book is a tour de force and it will become the standard starting point for subsequent attempts to re-interpret this impossibly confusing yet fundamentally seminal period.' - Jolyon Howorth, International Affairs
