1989 and the West
Back in 1989, many anticipated that the end of the Cold War would usher in the end of history' characterized by the victory of democracy and capitalism. At the thirtieth anniversary of this momentous event, this book challenges this assumption. It studies the most recent era of contemporary Eur...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
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New York ; London :
Routledge
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in modern European history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866437906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Author biographies
- Editors
- Contributors
- Introduction: 1989 and the West: revisiting the Cold War victory narrative
- Toward a history of Western Europe since the end of the Cold War
- Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener
- The end of the Cold War as accelerator
- The legacy of the end of the Cold War today
- Outline
- Notes
- References
- Part I: A new Germany in a new Europe
- Chapter 1: Germany and Europe after 1989: The spectre of the German question versus the resilience of self-restraint
- The German Question and international relations theory in the 1990s
- Germany as Europe's hegemon
- Germany's 1989 at three levels
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 2: The view from Benjamin Franklin Strasse: American military bases and the politics of conversion in post-1989 Germany
- Conversion and transformation in post-Cold War Germany
- Hopes and anxieties of conversion during the Cold War
- The fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of conversion in Germany
- Plans for the future: housing, environment, and employment
- Conclusion: the conversion, three decades on
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 3: The rise of a new power: Germany's political realism and global strategy
- Introduction: 1989, the new Germany
- German reunification and the restarting of the European integration process
- Germany's transformation from 2005 onward: three factors in reshaping Germany's international role
- From the 'sick man of Europe' to a role model: political and institutional stability in the German Federal Republic in the 2000s
- The features of German power: political realism and global strategy
- Conclusion: the changing position of Germany in Europe
- Notes
- Literature.
- Chapter 4: Reunification and national identity in Germany: A return to normality?
- Ontological normality: the nation in German history
- The reunification of Germany and territorial normality
- Ideological normality: Germany's belonging to the West
- Historical normality? Nationalized pasts and contested identity
- Conclusion: 1990 as a return to normality?
- Notes
- Literature
- Part II: Neoliberalism in and beyond the nation-state
- Chapter 5: Neoliberalism after 1989
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 6: The year 1989 and the global hegemony of neoliberalism
- What is neoliberalism?
- The formative phase of neoliberalism
- The rise of neoliberalism
- The global 1989
- Neoliberalism in practice in the 1990s
- Consequences of the crisis of 2008
- Researching neoliberalism from a contemporary history perspective
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 7: Market government: Neoliberalism and the transformative power of 1989
- Introduction
- Neoliberalism: the intertwining of market and state
- Transforming market government in the United States: markets against states
- State-led response to rollout neoliberalism: the Netherlands during the 1980s
- Neoliberalism rolling in: the Netherlands during the 1990s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 8: A profitable friendship, still? Town twinning between Eastern and Western European cities before and after 1989
- Introduction
- Conceptualizing and historicizing town twinning in Europe
- Town twinning in Cold War Europe
- Town twinning in Europe after 1989
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Literature
- Part III: Remaking Europe after 1989
- Chapter 9: The pitfalls of Western triumphalism
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 10: The future that once was 1989, the EU's eastward enlargement, and democracy's missed chances.
- 'The time of a great illusion'?12 The impact of 1989 on the enlargement option for the future of the Community
- Self-containment, reassertion, and the inception of a long-standing cleavage: accession vs. association dilemmas, 1989-93
- The lingering public opinion of the enlargement 'permanent waiting room' from 1994 onward
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Literature
- Primary sources
- Chapter 11: A missed opportunity for a new Europe?: The end of the Cold War and its consequences for Western European relations with Russia
- A common European home?
- 'Cold Peace'
- New Cold War?
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 12: The reluctant soft power: 1989 and the European Community's hesitant turn towards normative power in Africa
- Introduction: the contingency of 1989
- Increased communication in support of partnership (1970-1980)
- Cultural cooperation in the service of efficiency (1980-1989)
- 1989 and the recasting of SAPs and African responsibility in the 1990s
- Conclusion: the reluctant soft power
- Notes
- Literature
- Part IV: Democracy between triumph and crisis since 1989
- Chapter 13: Restrained democracy and its radical alternatives after 1989: The threefold crisis of democracy in the 'Former West'
- The self-inflicted debilitation of parliamentary democracy
- The changing landscape of party democracy
- The radical critique of liberal democracy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 14: The radical left since 1989: Decline, transformation, and revival
- The historical context of the 1989 revolutions
- The 1989 revolutions: WECPs and their successors
- From the WECPs to the radical left: a new party family?
- Changing performance of radical left parties
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Literature
- Chapter 15: The return of fascism in Europe? Reflections on history and the current situation
- Fascism.
- Europe after the Cold War
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Literature
- Index.
