More than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous event. Jeffrey Engel contributes a chronological narrative of this tumultuous period, followed by essays by Melvyn Leffler on the United States, Chen Jian on China, James Sheehan on Germany and Europe, and William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya on the Soviet Union.

• Chapter 1: 1989: An Introduction to an International History- Jeffrey A. Engel


• Chapter 2: The Transformation of Europe and the End of the Cold War- James J. Sheehan


• Chapter 3: If a Wall Fell in Berlin and Moscow Hardly Noticed, Would it Still Make a Noise?- William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya


• Chapter 4: Tiananmen and the Fall of the Berlin Wall: China's Path toward 1989 and Beyond- Chen Jian


• Chapter 5: Dreams of Freedom; Temptations of Power- Melvyn P. Leffler


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Jeffrey A. Engel is Associate Professor and Verlin and Howard Kruse '52 Founders Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy and the editor of Local Consequences of the Global Cold War and The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.