Record Nr.

UNINA9910811874303321

Autore

Geyer Georgie Anne <1935-2019.>

Titolo

Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Piscataway, : Transaction Publishers, 2015

ISBN

1-351-49710-3

1-351-49711-1

1-4128-5304-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Disciplina

909.829

Soggetti

United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-

World politics -- 1989-

World politics - 1989-

History & Archaeology

History - General

United States Foreign relations 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Paperback Edition""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: The Expectant Decade""; ""East Germanyâ€?s Not at All like Its Image, Ron""; ""Berlin Wall is Just One Example of How the World is Split in Two""; ""Soviet Empire Begins to Crack""; ""Groping toward Pluralism""; ""Iranian Children Herded to Death""; ""We Still Canâ€?t Go Home Again""; ""Reagan Reforms: His View of Soviets""; ""Part II: The Conceit of Innocence""; ""Polandâ€?s Winning Ways with Freedom""; ""Policymakers Ignore New Trends in Terrorism""

""Yugoslavia: Pulled Back to the Past and Ahead to the Future""""Sick with History, Kosovo Awaits Serbsâ€? Final Blow""; ""The Conceit of Innocence II""; ""Who Killed Sir Michael Rose?""; ""U.N. and West Should Quit Playing â€œDead Dogâ€? in Bosnia""; ""UN Secretary-General Believes in Negotiating""; ""The United Nations and Neutralism""; ""Russians Slowly Learning New Way""; ""Unclear Indicator of the New Russia""; ""After 1,000 Years of Absolute Faiths, Russia has None"";

""Russia Needed a New Identity, Not â€œShock Therapyâ€?""; ""Kazakh Leader Grapples with Change""

""In Ironic Reversal, Little Finland Now Influencing Giant Neighbor Russia""""Little Norway Goes Where Superpowers Cannot Trend""; ""Hollandâ€?s â€œManaged Moralityâ€?""; ""The Cold War is Over but the Quest for Meaning Continues""; ""Should U.S. Troops Have Gone on to Baghdad?""; ""Seeking to Change Society by Force?""; ""End of Cold War Released Violent, Separatist Feelings""; ""Many Groups are Aiding the Breakdown of Nation-States""; ""Sadatâ€?s Vision Made a Big Difference""; ""Lessons from the Death of a Cowboy""; ""Post-Cold War World Requires Institution-Building""

""Foreign Policy Differences of Utopians and Realists""""Comandante Chavez Wants to Save Venezuela from â€œAbyssâ€?""; ""Marine Corps Experience is Applicable Elsewhere""; ""What the Listeners Might Hear in Havana""; ""Democracy is Process, Not Instant Coffee""; ""Shanghai: Full of Life, But Going Where?""; ""Traditional Idea of Truth vs. Designer Truths""; ""Our Foreign Policy toward China is Delusional""; ""Part III: Terrorism an Era unto Itself""; ""Gov. George W. Bush is a Reasonable Reformer""; ""Bushâ€?s Faith-Based Program is Far Superior to Welfare State""; ""Putin Arrives""

""Gulf War Did Not Change Saddam Husseinâ€?s Priorities""""Religious-Secular Tensions Divide Israel""; ""Clinton Foreign Policy is Devoid of Principle""; ""U.S. Must Preserve What is Left of Our Civic Ideals""; ""Internet Globalizers Canâ€?t Erase Cultural Differences""; ""In India the South Points the Way for the North""; ""Information without Context or Knowledge is Meaningless""; ""Afghani Radicals Foment Terror in Far-Flung Places""; ""America is Losing Its Sense of Self""; ""Haiti: Political Terrorism Hangs over Elections""; ""Part IV: Between Neutralism and Justice""

""â€œCultural Intelligenceâ€? was Sacrificed on the Economic Altar""

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability.