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In Search of Stability Europe's Unfinished Revolution

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Edited by Gerald Frost and Andrew Mchallam

ISBN: 0-275-94489-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94489-6

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Praeger Publishers

Publication: 10/30/1992

List Price: $133.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

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Series Title: Praeger European Defense and Strategic Studies Annual

Description: This is the second in the series of annual editions comprising papers published by the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies during the previous year. It is a unique running commentary on some of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. The period covered by these studies coincided with the collapse of communism and the wider decline of collectivist ideas, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Gulf War. Contributors here deal extensively with these subjects and their profound consequences for the emerging world order. The volume is of great value to general and specialist reader alike, both as a source of reference and as a distinctive and authoritative interpretation of events. The death of communism does not presage the advent of a peaceful and more harmonious international order, according to Frost in his introduction, but we must further our understanding of Europe in order to enhance world prospects for peace and stability.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Gerald Frost
From Collectivism to Democracy
Communism: Why Prolong Its Death-Throes? by Brian Crozier
Retreat to Moscow: Gorbachev and the East European Revolution by Mark Almond
Czechoslovakia: Too Velvet a Revolution? by James De Candole
The Strange Death of Perestroika: Causes and Consequences of the Soviet Coup by John Gray
A Changing Security Environment
A Farewell to Arms Control: The Irrelevance of CFE by Christopher Coker
Pundits and Patriots: Lessons from the Gulf War by Philip Towle
Countering Proliferation: New Criteria for European Security by Keith Payne
Intimations of the New Order
National Pacifism: Germany's New Temptation by Mark Almond
The Death Knell of Social Democracy: Sweden's Dream Turns Sour by Peter Stein and Ingemar Dörfer
The Irrelevance of Maastricht: Redefining the Atlantic Community by Anthony Hartley

LC Card Number: 92-30984

LCC Class: D2009

Dewey Class: 320.94


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