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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 On the unpredictability of history -- PART I The meanings and legacies of 1989 -- 2 The world after 1989 and the exhaustion of three cycles -- 3 Writing 1989: a world narrative? -- 4 1989: a philosophy of immediacy -- PART II Re-inventing democracy and its discontents -- 5 Democracy and dissatisfaction -- 6 From the revolutions of 1989 to democracy fatigue in Eastern Europe -- 7 The difficult new era for international democracy support.;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 differen
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- Author
- Rupnik, Jacques.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138898158
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, History