The Two German States And European Security
The year 1989 embarrassed many students and analysts of Europe, and the authors of this volume are especially vulnerable. Yet if their answers were often wrong, the authors did pose the right questions before other people did-relocating the center of Europe's future in Germany and asking what reform in the Eastern bloc meant for the G.D.R.
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