Western Europe
Sarotte's readable and reliable diplomatic history will no doubt take its place as the classic overview of this period.
This volume exemplifies the new "international history" of 1989 -- more multilingual and more attentive to social and cultural underpinnings than traditional diplomatic history.
This book is the leading German-language history of the events of 1989. In addition to summarizing the diplomatic history, it explains the reasoning behind West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's activist diplomacy.
Schabert, a German professor with exceptional access to French sources, offers a uniquely well-documented treatment of Mitterrand's German diplomacy.
Meguid's core insight is that small parties' success is due less to their intrinsic appeal than to the strategic choices made by big mainstream parties in their competition with one other.
