<p><b>An award-winning history of the transformation of Europe between 1989 and today</b><br><br>In this award-winning book, Philipp Ther provides the first comprehensive history of post-1989 Europe, offering a sweeping narrative filled with vivid details and memorable stories. <i>Europe since 1989 </i>shows how liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had catastrophic effects on former Soviet Bloc countries. Ther refutes the idea that this economic ¿shock therapy¿ was the basis of later growth, arguing that human capital and the ¿transformation from below¿ determined economic success or failure. He also shows how the capitalist West¿s effort to reshape Eastern Europe in its own likeness ended up reshaping Western Europe, especially Germany. Bringing the story up to the present, Ther compares Eastern and Southern Europe after the 2008¿9 global financial crisis. A compelling account of how the new order of Europe was wrought from the chaotic aftermath of the Cold War, <i>Europe s
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Ther provides needed perspective on today's "refugee crisis," demonstrating how Europe has taken in far greater numbers of refugees in earlier periods of its history, in wartime as well as peacetime. His sweeping narrative crosses the Mediterranean...
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<p>When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong?</p><p>In...
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<P>This volume documents the UK Government¿s response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.</P><br/><br/><P>The year 1989 saw momentous change in Europe. It was the year in which Communist...
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This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling...
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