LEADER 05158nam 22006613u 450 001 9910811874303321 005 20240417045111.0 010 $a1-351-49710-3 010 $a1-351-49711-1 010 $a1-4128-5304-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000073883 035 $a(EBL)3411251 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001060197 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12437781 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001060197 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11085692 035 $a(PQKB)10463210 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3411251 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000073883 100 $a20170301d2015|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPredicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible $eFrom the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPiscataway $cTransaction Publishers$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (370 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4128-5278-1 327 $a""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface to the Paperback Edition""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: The Expectant Decade""; ""East Germanya???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 Cana???t Go Home Again""; ""Reagan Reforms: His View of Soviets""; ""Part II: The Conceit of Innocence""; ""Polanda???s Winning Ways with Freedom""; ""Policymakers Ignore New Trends in Terrorism"" 327 $a""Yugoslavia: Pulled Back to the Past and Ahead to the Future""""Sick with History, Kosovo Awaits Serbsa??? Final Blow""; ""The Conceit of Innocence II""; ""Who Killed Sir Michael Rose?""; ""U.N. and West Should Quit Playing a???Dead Doga??? 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 a???Shock Therapya???""; ""Kazakh Leader Grapples with Change"" 327 $a""In Ironic Reversal, Little Finland Now Influencing Giant Neighbor Russia""""Little Norway Goes Where Superpowers Cannot Trend""; ""Hollanda???s a???Managed Moralitya???""; ""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""; ""Sadata???s Vision Made a Big Difference""; ""Lessons from the Death of a Cowboy""; ""Post-Cold War World Requires Institution-Building"" 327 $a""Foreign Policy Differences of Utopians and Realists""""Comandante Chavez Wants to Save Venezuela from a???Abyssa???""; ""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""; ""Busha???s Faith-Based Program is Far Superior to Welfare State""; ""Putin Arrives"" 327 $a""Gulf War Did Not Change Saddam Husseina???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 Cana???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"" 327 $a""a???Cultural Intelligencea??? was Sacrificed on the Economic Altar"" 330 $aIn the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability. 606 $aUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- 606 $aWorld politics -- 1989- 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aHistory - General$2HILCC 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989- 615 4$aUnited States -- Foreign relations -- 1989-. 615 4$aWorld politics -- 1989-. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aHistory - General 676 $a909.829 700 $aGeyer$b Georgie Anne$f1935-2019.$01663566 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811874303321 996 $aPredicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible$94020964 997 $aUNINA