Eleni Braat is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, where she teaches 20th century history of international relations and secret intelligence. She specializes in state secrecy, intelligence and security services, and the political and organizational tensions they led to in 20th century Europe. She holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and she has been official historian of the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD).Pepijn Corduwener is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University. He is specialized in the history of democracy in 20th century Europe, with a particular focus on postwar France, Germany and Italy. He has published widely on this topic as well as on European populism. His monograph The Problem of Democracy in Postwar Europe was published by Routledge in 2017. He is currently conducting a research project on the crisis of people’s parties in Europe, funded by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research.

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• Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener, PrefaceEleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener, 1989 and the West. Revisiting the Cold War Victory Narrative I. A New Germany in a New EuropeCh. 1 Jacco Pekelder, Germany and Europe after 1989. The Spectre of the German Question versus the Resilience of Self-Restraint Ch. 2 Adam Seipp, The View from Benjamin-Franklin Strasse: Politics, Society, and Conversion in Western Germany, 1989-1995Ch. 3 Ubaldo Villani-Lubelli, The Rise of a New Power: Germany’s Political Realism and Global StrategyCh. 4 Christian Wicke, Reunification and National Identity: A Return to Normality? II. Neoliberalism in and beyond the Nation StateCh. 5 Annelien de Dijn, Neoliberalism after 1989Ch. 6 Philipp Ther, The Year 1989 and the Global Hegemony of NeoliberalismCh. 7 Bram Mellink and P.W. Zuidhof, Market government: Neoliberalism and the transformative power of 1989Ch. 8 Stefan Couperus and Dora Vrhoci, A Profitable Friendship, Still? Town Twinning between Eastern and Western European Cities before and after 1989III. Remaking Europe after 1989 Ch. 9 Federico Romero, The pitfalls of Western triumphalismCh. 10 Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez, The Future that Once Was: 1989, the EU’s Eastward Enlargement, and Democracy’s Missed ChancesCh. 11 Laurien Crump, A Missed Opportunity for a New Europe? The End of the Cold War and its Consequences for Western European Relations with Russia Ch. 12 Frank Gerits, The Reluctant Soft Power. 1989 and the European Community’s Hesitant Turn towards Normative Power in AfricaIV. Democracy between Triumph and Crisis since 1989Ch. 13 Ido de Haan, Restrained Democracy and its Radical Alternatives after 1989: the Threefold Crisis of Democracy in the ‘Former West’ Ch. 14 Martin J. Bull, The Radical Left since 1989: Decline, Transformation and RevivalCh. 15 Dan Stone, The Return of Fascism in Europe? Reflections on History and the Current SituationIndex