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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Who won the Cold War in Europe? A historiographical overview
Part I Perestroika and its effects revisited
2 Gorbachev’s New Thinking and Europe, 1985–1989
3 In the name of Europe: Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe
Part II Developments in Eastern Europe
4 Rumblings in Eastern Europe: Western pressure on Poland’s moves towards democratic transformation
5 The Catholic Church and the Cold War’s end in Europe: Vatican Ostpolitik and Pope John Paul II, 1985–1989
6 The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest
Part III German unification between the superpowers
7 In the name of Europe’s future: Soviet, French and British qualms about Kohl’s rush to German unification
8 Gorbachev’s consent to united Germany’s membership of NATO
9 The United States, German unification and European integration
Part IV German unification: seizing the opportunity
10 German unification and European integration are but two sides of one coin: the FRG, Europe, and the diplomacy of German unification
11 France, German unification and European integration
12 A naturally supportive environment? The European institutions and German unification
Part V German unification: concerns and misgivings
13 The United Kingdom and German unification
14 Italy, German unification and the end of the Cold War
Part VI Soviet disintegration and the building of a new Europe
15 From the common European home to European confederation: François Mitterrand and Mikhail Gorbachev in search of the road to a greater Europe
16 International reactions to Soviet disintegration: the case of the Baltic states
Part VII Competing visions in the Euro-Atlantic area
17 Eastern Europe and the early prospects for EC/EU and NATO membership
18 Helmut Kohl and the Maastricht process
19 The EU, NATO and the origins of CFSP and ESDP: old thinking, false starts and new imperatives
Bibliography
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