Miller Center Series on a World in Change – serie

Africa's Second Wave of Freedom represents the work of scholars who share a concern with the development of civil society in Africa. The first third of the book deals theoretically with the issues of democracy and stability in Africa. In particular, the contributors analyze the inadequacy of the United States' response to African problems (such as environmental decay, spiraling debt, and health epidemics) that do not respect national boundaries; the fragility of democracy in Africa and the danger of reversion to dictatorships; and the barriers to constitutional democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. The remainder of the book consists of case studies of various aspects of civil society from Mozambique, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.

This book explores the provocative question, 'What has been, and will be, the impact of new thinking and developments upon international politics?' The essays discuss the new possibilities resulting from new thinking. These are: the end of the Cold War and the advent of a peaceful, prosperous Europe closely tied to the United States; an invigorated United Nations; a shift of attention to the new challenges posed by patterns of violence in areas of the world divorced from the Cold War; and the prospect of global democratization and greater global economic and ecological health. Essays include: Implications of Soviet New Thinking for International Politics: Clues from Eastern Europe; Remodeling NATO and Europe: Continuity and Change in European Security in the 1990s; Toward a New and Invigorated United Nations; Violent Conflict in the International System of the 1990s; International Economics in the 1990s; Information Revolution and the Shaping of a Democratic Global Order. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.

This work presents perspectives by experts during three different time periods-from 1989 to 1990, in 1991, and in 1992-illustrating the depth of the changes that have taken place in the former Soviet Union. Contents: Change in the Soviet Union: Political Dynamics in the Gorbachev Era; Gorbachev and Change in Soviet Foreign Policy; Reagan's Foreign Policy and Soviet-American Relations; The Rhetoric and Reality of Change in Soviet Domestic and Foreign Policy; The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; What Went Wrong with Perestroika?; The Disintegration of the U.S.S.R. and American Foreign Policy; The Post-Soviet Economy and the World; The Influence of Political Culture on Government and Society; The Commonwealth of Independent States and the Post-Soviet Successor States; and Russia's Current Perception of America. Contributors: Paul B. Stephan, Joseph L. Nogee, Sterling J. Kernek, George M. Seignious II, Malcolm Toon, Marshall I. Goldman, Allen C. Lynch, Leonid I. Abalkin, Maurice Friedberg, Paul A. Goble, and Vladimir O. Pechatnov. Co-published with the Miller Center of Public Affairs.

Contents: Europe: Integration or Fragmentation; East and West in Europe: New Walls or Integration?; Fortress Europe: Fact or Fancy?; Sweden and the New Europe; German and American Constitutionalism; Where Will German Unification Lead?; The New Germany and Europe; The Unification of Germany: Problems and Consequences; German Reunification: Price and Promise; A United Germany: An American Perspective; Governance and the New Europe. Contributors: Robert Rudney, Ambassador Berndt von Staden, Sir Peter Marshall, Ambassador Anders Thunborg, Ernst Benda, Robert Gerald Livingston, Alison T. Millett, Gunter Pleuger, Rebecca Hartley, Eamonn Gallagher. Co-published with The Miller Center.