Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr

The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massacre in Tiananmen Square.

Now, with deft analysis and a wealth of newly declassified archival sources, historian Kristina Spohr offers a bold and novel interpretation of the revolutionary upheaval of 1989 and, how in its aftermath, a new world order was forged without major conflict.

The Post-Wall world, Spohr argues, was brought about in significant measure through the determined diplomacy of a small cohort of international leaders. They engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation and worked together to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War.