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1989: the struggle to create post-cold war Europe

sees 1989 as multifaceted and sometimes contradictory in character: democratic advances took place at the same time as ethnic and religious strife was on the rise, Eastern Europe rejected communism just when communism in China saved itself through violent repression and economic transformation. First and foremost, Grosser rejects any triumphalism coming out of 1989: those who believed that the events of that year signalled the final victory for capitalism and liberal democracy have had their illusions crushed as effectively as those who believed that a ‘socialism with a human face’ could emerge from the ruins of Stalinism in Eastern Europe. 1989, according to Grosser, made the world a much more complicated place. The structures that the Cold War had enforced (and which in some cases had their origins well before the global conflict began) implied order and certainties. As the Cold War structures tumbled, no new order emerged, but rather sets of broad concerns among very different kinds of global actors: Islamist Jihad, the war on terror, China’s growth, Russia’s turbulent border areas, Japan’s genteel decline, Europe’s stumbling integration process. Grosser is an excellent guide to how this change came about. His book should be translated soon, so that it will be available for a non-French-speaking audience.