" The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted
in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet …

Organization (NATO) was preparing to expand its membership for the first time since the
admission of Spain in 1982, Russian officials claimed that the entry of former Warsaw Pact …

From Slovenia to Turkey, social movements and protests have shaken the political systems
of Southeast Europe. Confronting issues such as austerity, the provision and privatisation of …

This book seeks to reassess the role of Europe in the end of the Cold War and the process of
German unification. Much of the existing literature on the end of the Cold War has focused …

The Russian government has claimed that the Western powers promised at the end of the
Cold War not to expand NATO, but later reneged on that promise. Most former officials in the …

This article analyzes the role of human-rights ideas in the collapse of Communism. The
demise of Communist rule in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was significantly …

Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by
the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War–a conflict that …

ABSTRACT The Soviet Union had tied Finland to its security system through the Treaty of
Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (FCMA) signed between the two in 1948. As …

Controversy arose in the mid-1990s when Russian officials accused Western governments
of reneging on binding pledges made to Moscow in 1990 during German unification …

Drawing on recently declassified Albanian, Soviet, East German, and Western archival
sources, as well as a rich historiography on Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech and the …