05158nam 22006613u 450 991081187430332120240417045111.01-351-49710-31-351-49711-11-4128-5304-4(CKB)3710000000073883(EBL)3411251(SSID)ssj0001060197(PQKBManifestationID)12437781(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060197(PQKBWorkID)11085692(PQKB)10463210(MiAaPQ)EBC3411251(EXLCZ)99371000000007388320170301d2015|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrPredicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century1st ed.Piscataway Transaction Publishers20151 online resource (370 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4128-5278-1 ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Paperback Edition""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: The Expectant Decade""; ""East Germany�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 Can�t Go Home Again""; ""Reagan Reforms: His View of Soviets""; ""Part II: The Conceit of Innocence""; ""Poland�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 Serbs� Final Blow""; ""The Conceit of Innocence II""; ""Who Killed Sir Michael Rose?""; ""U.N. and West Should Quit Playing “Dead Dog� 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 “Shock Therapy�""; ""Kazakh Leader Grapples with Change""""In Ironic Reversal, Little Finland Now Influencing Giant Neighbor Russia""""Little Norway Goes Where Superpowers Cannot Trend""; ""Holland�s “Managed Morality�""; ""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""; ""Sadat�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 “Abyss�""; ""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""; ""Bush�s Faith-Based Program is Far Superior to Welfare State""; ""Putin Arrives""""Gulf War Did Not Change Saddam Hussein�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 Can�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""""“Cultural Intelligence� was Sacrificed on the Economic Altar""In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability.United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-World politics -- 1989-World politics1989-History & ArchaeologyHILCCHistory - GeneralHILCCUnited StatesForeign relations1989-United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-.World politics -- 1989-.World politicsHistory & ArchaeologyHistory - General909.829Geyer Georgie Anne1935-2019.1663566AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910811874303321Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible4020964UNINA