In 1989, the floodgates of revolution were opened in Eastern
Europe. Communist governments toppled in all of the East European
countries that were members of the Warsaw Pact. Glasnost and
perestroika in the Soviet Union, the prospect of increasing West
European integration leading to the further marginization of
Eastern Europe, and long-suppressed alienation of the public from
the political leadership throughout Eastern Europe were amongst the
immediate factors leading to the upheavals of 1989. In this
research volume, Alpo Rusi, Director of Planning and Research in
the Political Department of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, examines the history of the postwar east-west relationship
in Europe, the underlying proceses of change and the implications
of the present period of transition to a new European order.;In Dr
Rusi's view the events of 1989 are but a harbinger of a new
security order in Europe. The author analyses the rise of
bipolarism, both during the conflict of the Cold War and during the
growth of detente, and lays stress on the parallel process of an
evolution towards multilateralism. Dr Rusi's view is that in
exploring the prospects for Europe's future, analysts
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