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To Build a Better World - Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth (Paperback)
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To Build a Better World - Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth (Paperback)
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A deeply researched international history and exemplary study (New
York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our
present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another
great time of choosing. Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats,
Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several
languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own
firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the
contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the
might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they
explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show
how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late
1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous
period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed,
states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods
have always been accompanied by terrible wars -- but not this time.
This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They
voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations
and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a postwar
world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more
prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come
of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they
made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only
why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can
step up to great challenges. Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of
the fall of the Berlin Wall, To Build a Better World is an
authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers
in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks,
last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas
that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever.
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