Table of Contents
Introduction: Catalytic Choices 1
Two East German Success Stories
Ups and Downs
Operating Principles for a Different World
The Blindness of Hindsight
Slouching Toward a Systemic Crisis
What Comes Next?
Chapter 1 The Renewal of the Free World 29
The Two Prophets
The "Rights" Revolution
Reconstructing Global Finance (But Not Global Trade)
Lowering Barriers: The Momentum of Three Examples
The Renewal of Anticommunism
Chapter 2 Perestroika 68
The "Great Man"?
Reform Communism
To Change the USSR, Change the World
Gorbachev's "Turning Point" in 1988
What Would All This Mean for Eastern Europe?
When Is the Cold War Over?
Chapter 3 Hopes and Fears 106
"Dream Big Dreams"
The Vectors of Change
The Future of Eastern Europe
The Future of the Soviet Union
The Future of European Integration
Security in Europe
The Future of Germany
The Chinese Solution
American Decline? Soviet Decline?
Chapter 4 The Pivot: A New Germany in a Different Europe 158
The Revolutions Begin
The Soviet Agenda: Beyond Containment-and Beyond Communism?
Putting Words into Action
A New Germany?
A New Germany in a New Europe?
Hit the Accelerator
Time to Decide on German Unity
Should the Unified Germany Be in NATO?
The German Election
Chapter 5 The Designs for a New Europe 247
A New European Union
Lithuania, Biological Weapons: Walking a Tightrope
A Plan to Manage German Power
How to Help Gorbachev?
Free to Choose
A New Atlantic Alliance
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 305
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
The Unipolar Mirage
Chapter 7 New Challenges Evolve 366
The Financial Crisis
The Migrant Crisis
Hungary and Poland Again
The United States of Europe That Never Was
America: The Politics of "Do You Hear Me Now?"
From the Peace Dividend to Perpetual War
The Break with Russia
Is America Done?
Epilogue: To Build a Better World 409
Principles, Partnership, and Practicality
Balancing the Local and the Global
The Emergence of Great Power Rivalry
Can a Confident America Rise Again?
Acknowledgments 431
Notes 433
Index 495