ROBIN NIBLETT is Director of Strategic Planning and Fellow in European Studies at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC. - WILLIAM WALLACE is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. His most recent book (with Helen Wallace and others) is Policymaking in the European Union, 4th edition.

'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

• 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