The Legacy of Division: East and West after 1989

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Title: The Legacy of Division : East and West after 1989

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction. The legacy of division: East and West after 1989
Staring through the mocking glass: Three misperceptions of the East-West divide since 1989
Back to Cold War and beyond
The price of unity The transformation of Germany and east central Europe after 1989
Thirty years on: Germany’s unfinished unity
This mess of troubled times
The mythology of the East-West divide
Anxious Europe
‘But this is the world we live in’ Corruption, everyday managing, and civic mobilization in post-socialist Romania
The end of the liberal world as we know it? Two walls in 1989
Wests, East-Wests, and divides
The Great Substitution
The struggle over 1989. The rise and contestation of eastern European populism
Beyond anti-democratic temptation
Dissidence – doubt – creativity: Revisiting 1983
Gendering dissent: Human rights, gender history and the road to 1989
Creating feminism in the shadow of male heroes That other story of 1989
Legacies of 1989 for dissent today
Of hopes and ends: Czech transformations after 1989
Just because the map says so, doesn’t mean it’s true: Thirty years after 1989, from an island perspective
The East in you never leaves
Freedom of movement: A European dialectic
‘The Romanians are coming’ Emerging divisions and enduring misperceptions in contemporary Europe
The two faces of European disillusionment: An end to myths about the West and the East
Go East!
‘The future was next to you’ An interview with Ivan Krastev on ’89 and the end of liberal hegemony
‘The distorting mirror’ A conversation between Igor Pomerantsev and Peter Pomerantsev
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Contributor: Assmann, Aleida [Contributor]; Bieber, Florian [Contributor]; Bohle, Dorothee [Contributor]; Brier, Robert [Contributor]; Case, Holly [Contributor]; Chithelen, Niall [Contributor]; Falk, Barbara J. [Contributor]; Gabrijelčič, Luka Lisjak [Contributor]; Georgescu, Diana [Contributor]; Greskovits, Béla [Contributor]; Hatherley, Owen [Contributor]; Iacob, Bogdan C. [Contributor]; Kuisz, Jarosław [Contributor]; Laczó, Ferenc [Contributor]; Laczó, Ferenc [Editor]; Leggewie, Claus [Contributor]; Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Luka [Editor]; Lóránd, Zsófia [Contributor]; Mark, James [Contributor]; Massino, Jill [Contributor]; Panagiotidis, Jannis [Contributor]; Puttkamer, Joachim von [Contributor]; Rupprecht, Tobias [Contributor]; Sakwa, Richard [Contributor]; Schlögel, Karl [Contributor]; Slačálek, Ondřej [Contributor]; Sonnevend, Julia [Contributor]; Stan, Marius [Contributor]; Ther, Philipp [Contributor]; Tismaneanu, Vladimir [Contributor]; Wang, James [Contributor]; Zielonka, Jan [Contributor]

Published: Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (344 p.)

Language: English

ISBN: 9789633863756

Keywords: Europe, Eastern--Foreign relations--1989- ; Europe, Western--Foreign relations--1989- ; European Union--Membership ; HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century ; East & West, Central &, Eastern Europe, European Union, Political studies, Populism, Postcommunism

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Footnote: In English

Description: This volume examines the legacy of the East–West divide since the implosion of the communist regimes in Europe. The ideals of 1989 have largely been frustrated by the crises and turmoil of the past decade. The liberal consensus was first challenged as early as the mid-2000s. In Eastern Europe, grievances were directed against the prevailing narratives of transition and ever sharper ethnic-racial antipathies surfaced in opposition to a supposedly postnational and multicultural West. In Western Europe, voices regretting the European Union's supposedly careless and premature expansion eastward began to appear on both sides of the left–right and liberal–conservative divides. The possibility of convergence between Europe's two halves has been reconceived as a threat to the European project. In a series of original essays and conversations, thirty-three contributors from the fields of European and global history, politics and culture address questions fundamental to our understanding of Europe today: How have perceptions and misperceptions between the two halves of the continent changed over the last three decades? Can one speak of a new East–West split? If so, what characterizes it and why has it reemerged? The contributions demonstrate a great variety of approaches, perspectives, emphases, and arguments in addressing the daunting dilemma of Europe's assumed East–West divide

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