1989 and the West: Western Europe since the End of the Cold War

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Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Author biographies
	Editors
	Contributors
Introduction: 1989 and the West: revisiting the Cold War victory narrative
	Toward a history of Western Europe since the end of the Cold War
	Eleni Braat and Pepijn Corduwener
	The end of the Cold War as accelerator
	The legacy of the end of the Cold War today
	Outline
	Notes
	References
Part I: A new Germany in a new Europe
	Chapter 1: Germany and Europe after 1989: The spectre of the German question versus the resilience of self-restraint
		The German Question and international relations theory in the 1990s
		Germany as Europe’s hegemon
		Germany’s 1989 at three levels
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 2: The view from Benjamin Franklin Strasse: American military bases and the politics of conversion in post-1989 Germany
		Conversion and transformation in post-Cold War Germany
		Hopes and anxieties of conversion during the Cold War
		The fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of conversion in Germany
		Plans for the future: housing, environment, and employment
		Conclusion: the conversion, three decades on
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 3: The rise of a new power: Germany’s political realism and global strategy
		Introduction: 1989, the new Germany
		German reunification and the restarting of the European integration process
		Germany’s transformation from 2005 onward: three factors in reshaping Germany’s international role
		From the ‘sick man of Europe’ to a role model: political and institutional stability in the German Federal Republic in the 2000s
		The features of German power: political realism and global strategy
		Conclusion: the changing position of Germany in Europe
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 4: Reunification and national identity in Germany: A return to normality?
		Ontological normality: the nation in German history
		The reunification of Germany and territorial normality
		Ideological normality: Germany’s belonging to the West
		Historical normality? Nationalized pasts and contested identity
		Conclusion: 1990 as a return to normality?
		Notes
		Literature
Part II: Neoliberalism in and beyond the nation-state
	Chapter 5: Neoliberalism after 1989
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 6: The year 1989 and the global hegemony of neoliberalism
		What is neoliberalism?
		The formative phase of neoliberalism
		The rise of neoliberalism
		The global 1989
		Neoliberalism in practice in the 1990s
		Consequences of the crisis of 2008
		Researching neoliberalism from a contemporary history perspective
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 7: Market government: Neoliberalism and the transformative power of 1989
		Introduction
		Neoliberalism: the intertwining of market and state
		Transforming market government in the United States: markets against states
		State-led response to rollout neoliberalism: the Netherlands during the 1980s
		Neoliberalism rolling in: the Netherlands during the 1990s
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 8: A profitable friendship, still? Town twinning between Eastern and Western European cities before and after 1989
		Introduction
		Conceptualizing and historicizing town twinning in Europe
		Town twinning in Cold War Europe
		Town twinning in Europe after 1989
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Literature
Part III: Remaking Europe after 1989
	Chapter 9: The pitfalls of Western triumphalism
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 10: The future that once was 1989, the EU’s eastward enlargement, and democracy’s missed chances
		‘The time of a great illusion’?12 The impact of 1989 on the enlargement option for the future of the Community
		Self-containment, reassertion, and the inception of a long-standing cleavage: accession vs. association dilemmas, 1989–93
		The lingering public opinion of the enlargement ‘permanent waiting room’ from 1994 onward
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Literature
		Primary sources
	Chapter 11: A missed opportunity for a new Europe?: The end of the Cold War and its consequences for Western European relations with Russia
		A common European home?
		‘Cold Peace’
		New Cold War?
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 12: The reluctant soft power: 1989 and the European Community’s hesitant turn towards normative power in Africa
		Introduction: the contingency of 1989
		Increased communication in support of partnership (1970–1980)
		Cultural cooperation in the service of efficiency (1980–1989)
		1989 and the recasting of SAPs and African responsibility in the 1990s
		Conclusion: the reluctant soft power
		Notes
		Literature
Part IV: Democracy between triumph and crisis since 1989
	Chapter 13: Restrained democracy and its radical alternatives after 1989: The threefold crisis of democracy in the ‘Former West’
		The self-inflicted debilitation of parliamentary democracy
		The changing landscape of party democracy
		The radical critique of liberal democracy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 14: The radical left since 1989: Decline, transformation, and revival
		The historical context of the 1989 revolutions
		The 1989 revolutions: WECPs and their successors
		From the WECPs to the radical left: a new party family?
		Changing performance of radical left parties
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Literature
	Chapter 15: The return of fascism in Europe? Reflections on history and the current situation
		Fascism
		Europe after the Cold War
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Literature
Index