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  • Not One Inch

    America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

    by M. E. Sarotte ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    Thirty years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, this book reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall“The most engaging and carefully documented account of this period in East-West diplomacy currently available.”—Andrew Moravscik, Foreign AffairsNot one inch. With these words, Secretary of State James Baker proposed ... Read more

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  • Dealing with the Devil

    East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973

    by M. E. Sarotte ...
    Series series New Cold War History
    Using new archival sources — including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party — M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of detente, as East and West tried negotiation instead of confrontation to settle their differences. In Dealing with the Devil, she explores the motives of the German Democratic Republic and its Soviet ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Not One Inch

    America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate

    by M.E. Sarotte ...
    Narrated by Teri Schnaubelt ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 54 min

    A leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics in a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021"Sarotte is the unofficial dean of 'end of Cold War' studies. . . . With her latest book, she tackles head-on the not-controversial-at-all questions about NATO’s eastward growth and the effect it had on Russia's relations with the west." —Daniel W. ... Read more

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  • The Collapse

    The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall

    On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates that night was not planned by the East German ruling regime -- nor was it the result of a bargain ... Read more

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  • 1989

    The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    How the political events of 1989 shaped Europe after the Cold War1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, ... Read more

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  • German Reunification

    A Multinational History

    Series series Cold War History
    This book provides a multinational history of German reunification based on empirical work by leading scholars.The reunification of Germany in 1989-90 was one of the most unexpected and momentous events of the twentieth century. Embedded within the wider process of the end of the Cold War, it contributed decisively to the dramatic changes that followed: the end of the division of Europe, the ... Read more

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  • Collapse

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