Global 1989 - Continuity and Change in World Politics

Klappentext The first full-scale assessment of the complexities, contradictions and paradoxes of the post-1989 world. Zusammenfassung 1989 signifies the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War. This book unravels the intricacies of this important moment in world history and explores the complexities! contradictions and paradoxes of the post-1989 world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the 'what', 'when' and 'where' of the global 1989 George Lawson; Part I. What and When: 1. Back to the future of nineteenth-century Western international thought? John M. Hobson; 2. The return of primitive accumulation Saskia Sassen; 3. What is left after 1989? William Outhwaite; Part II. Where: 4. Transatlantic relations in the shadow of the Cold War Michael Cox; 5. Third World socialism: 1989 and after Fred Halliday; 6. Towards a global Europe? Laure Delcour; 7. Restoration and convergence: Russia and China since 1989 Aviezer Tucker; 8. One world, many cold wars: 1989 in the Middle East Richard Saull; Part III. Continuity and Change: 9. One bright moment in an age of war, genocide and terror? On the revolutions of 1989 Chris Armbruster; 10. A dangerous utopia: the military revolution from the Cold War to the war on terror Marc DeVore; 11. From Berlin to Baghdad: learning the 'wrong' lessons from the collapse of communism Barbara J. Falk; Conclusion: was there a global 1989? Arne Westad.

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• Authors: George Lawson, George (Lecturer Lawson, George Armbruster Lawson
• Assisted by: Chris Armbruster (Editor), Michael Cox (Editor), Michael (London School of Economics and Political Science) Cox (Editor), George Lawson (Editor), George (Lecturer Lawson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521147910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14791-0
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science