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The End of the Cold War?: Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, and the Reunification of Germany - Couverture rigide

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Plato, Alexander Von

 
9781137488701: The End of the Cold War?: Bush, Kohl, Gorbachev, and the Reunification of Germany
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1137488700 ISBN 13 : 9781137488701
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

The re-unification of Germany was part of a process that changed the world: it extended the West to the East bringing parliamentarian democracies and a market systems, and expanded NATO to the (Bela) Russian border with an increasing American influence; at the same time, the Soviet Union imploded and the Eastern military alliance, the Warsaw Pact, disappeared. Alexander von Plato traces this process in detail. His carefully researched history draws on archival sources as well as a wealth of new interviews with on-the-ground activists, political actors, international figures, and others to move beyond the narratives-both the German and American varieties-that have dominated the historical memory of reunification. In the process, it addresses some fascinating lingering questions from 1989: What led the Soviet side to agree to the reunification of Germany and the membership of a united Germany in NATO? Was it promoting, as a condition for German unity, military neutrality or an overall European security system as an alternative to the expansion of NATO? Was the government of the FRG subjected to pressure from the Soviet side to decide between unity and its ties to the West? Did the American side rule this out? And what strategies did the West and East European as well as the Canadian governments ultimately pursue? What are the consequences until now?

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À propos de l'auteur

Alexander von Plato was founder and director of the Institute for History and Biography of the University of Hagen, guest professor in Vienna and Winnipeg, recipient of the Diefenbaker Award 2012)

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1137488700
ISBN 13 
9781137488701
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
454
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