The Global 1989
Continuity and Change in World Politics

“Like many joyous moments, 1989 has had diverse, unexpected and not always beneficial consequences. The editors of this volume ask all the right questions about 1989 as a turning point and the contributors provide many intelligent and provocative answers.”
Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Dartmouth College and Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science

“This impressive collection of essays examines the place in global history of the revolutionary events of 1989, but it will also interest anyone attempting to theorize the overall trajectory of contemporary societies.”
Michael Mann, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

“This excellent book should be widely read and pondered because it addresses one of the most important issues of our time: why the triumphalism of 1989 has given way to a growing pessimism about the future of world politics.”
John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

“This book brings together a distinguished group of scholars to illuminate an important subject whose larger significance policymakers, scholars and the broader reading public think they understand but probably don’t. Nearly anyone who thinks much about politics has a take on the meaning of 1989. Lawson, Armbruster, Cox and their collaborators are here to tell you that what you think you know about the implications of the Cold War’s and Euro-Eurasian communism’s collapse rests on tenuous conceptual or empirical foundations, or probably both.”
William C. Wohlforth, Daniel Webster Professor, Dartmouth College and Editor in Chief, Security Studies