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020			_a9780300233827 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9780300252361 _q(ebook)
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050	1	4	_aD856 _b.S684 2020
100	1		_aSpohr, Kristina, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPost wall, post square : _bhow Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng shaped the world after 1989 / _cKristina Spohr.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c2020.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"In this lively historical account, Kristina Spohr tells the story of the New World Order achieved at the end of the Cold War-the pacts, agreements, and institutions that are now under stress. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Spohr shows how George W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl at the center, and François Mitterand, Margaret Thatcher, and Deng Ziaoping on the peripheries, responded to the unrest of 1989 by initiating a "conservative revolution" led by the West, re-structuring international institutions around what had worked in the previous order-for better and for worse. While this reconfiguration brought Germany together and helped broker a peaceful conclusion to the Cold War, the choices made between 1989 and 1991 also sowed the seeds of discontent that fueled the rise of a new wave of populism currently challenging the political status quo"--
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