Introduction: Catalytic Choices
Two East German Success Stories
Operating Principles for a Different World
Slouching Toward a Systemic Crisis
Chapter 1: The Renewal of the Free World
Reconstructing Global Finance (But Not Global Trade)
Lowering Barriers: The Momentum of Three Examples
To Change the USSR, Change the World
Gorbachev’s “Turning Point” in 1988
What Would All This Mean for Eastern Europe?
The Future of the Soviet Union
The Future of European Integration
American Decline? Soviet Decline?
Chapter 4: The Pivot: A New Germany in a Different Europe
The Soviet Agenda: Beyond Containment—and Beyond Communism?
A New Germany in a New Europe?
Time to Decide on German Unity
Should the Unified Germany Be in NATO?
Chapter 5: The Designs for a New Europe
Lithuania, Biological Weapons: Walking a Tightrope
A Final Settlement for Germany
First Tests for a Transformed NATO
Creating a Better League of Nations
Chapter 6: The Designs for a Commonwealth of Free Nations
Last Chances for the Soviet Economy
The Breakup of the Soviet Union
What About the Nuclear Weapons?
The Shock of the New: Building Different Economies and Societies
Russia’s Brief Window of Opportunity
The Integration of Eastern Europe
Global Designs and a New World Order
Chapter 7: New Challenges Evolve
The United States of Europe That Never Was
America: The Politics of “Do You Hear Me Now?”
From the Peace Dividend to Perpetual War
Epilogue: To Build a Better World
Principles, Partnership, and Practicality
Balancing the Local and the Global
The Emergence of Great Power Rivalry