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1989 as a Political World Event
Democracy, Europe and the New International System in the Age of Globalization
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
2 228 kr
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This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and the world brought about by 1989. When the Cold War ended in Europe it ushered in a world in which the international agenda is set outside Europe, in America or Asia. The book critically examines and moves beyond some of the conveniently simple paradigms proposed in the nineties, by leading political scientists such as Fukuyama and Huntington, to show how the events of 1989 meant different things to different parties. This was an anti-utopian revolution, a symbol of the possibility of non-violent transitions to democracy, which raised the hopes of world-wide democratic changes. Contributors show how 1989 can be seen as the founding moment of a globalized world, but equal attention should be given to the dispersion of its meanings and the exhaustion of some of its main trends associated with the post-1989 era. Europe was reunited, yet it is in crisis. Twenty years on, global markets have brought about a global financial crisis. The fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated as the advent of free movement in a world without borders. Now however, we can see that new borders, walls, fences have since been built.With an introductory essay by Vaclav Havel, 1989 as a Political World Event will be of interest to scholars of European Politics and International Relations.
1989 as a Political World Event
Democracy, Europe and the New International System in the Age of Globalization
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
640 kr
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This book is not about the events of 1989, but about 1989 as a world event. Starting with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet bloc it examines the historical significance and the world brought about by 1989. When the Cold War ended in Europe it ushered in a world in which the international agenda is set outside Europe, in America or Asia. The book critically examines and moves beyond some of the conveniently simple paradigms proposed in the nineties, by leading political scientists such as Fukuyama and Huntington, to show how the events of 1989 meant different things to different parties. This was an anti-utopian revolution, a symbol of the possibility of non-violent transitions to democracy, which raised the hopes of world-wide democratic changes. Contributors show how 1989 can be seen as the founding moment of a globalized world, but equal attention should be given to the dispersion of its meanings and the exhaustion of some of its main trends associated with the post-1989 era. Europe was reunited, yet it is in crisis. Twenty years on, global markets have brought about a global financial crisis. The fall of the Berlin Wall was celebrated as the advent of free movement in a world without borders. Now however, we can see that new borders, walls, fences have since been built.With an introductory essay by Vaclav Havel, 1989 as a Political World Event will be of interest to scholars of European Politics and International Relations.
Josef Guttmann: The Fates of Central Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Selected Writing
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
486 kr
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Two lives, two names, two perspectives on Soviet communism and its postwar expansion into Eastern Europe.In the 1930s, Guttmann was a leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia before he broke with the party over the Comintern's strategy of helping Hitler to power. A harsh critic of Stalin's dictatorship and foreign policy, Guttmann became a prominent leftist opponent, outcast by the Party. To escape nazism, he exiled and settled in New York, where he worked under a pseudonym as a leading expert on events in the Soviet bloc and a critic of totalitarianism. Featured in this book are his Czech texts from the 1930s as well as studies and essays he later wrote on the nature of communist regimes, genocide, and anti-Semitism.