1989 as a political world event: democracy, Europe and the new international system in the age of globalization
In: Routledge series on global order studies
1 On the unpredictability of history -- PART I The meanings and legacies of 1989. 2 The world after 1989 and the exhaustion of three cycles -- 3 Writing 1989: a world narrative? -- 4 1989: a philosophy of immediacy -- PART II Re-inventing democracy and its discontents. 5 Democracy and dissatisfaction -- 6 From the revolutions of 1989 to democracy fatigue in Eastern Europe -- 7 The difficult new era for international democracy support -- 8 Civil society: from myth to reality -- 9 'Tropical democracy' -- 10 The Arab four seasons: when an excess of religion leads to political secularization -- PART III Varieties of capitalism in the age of globalization. 11 Institutional change and market transitions after socialism -- 12 The political economy of post-1989 capitalism in East-Central Europe -- 13 1989 and the advent of an authoritarian state capitalism in China -- PART IV Between global governance and new power rivalries. 14 American visions of the world after 1989 -- 15 Russia and the quest for lost power -- 16 China and the end of socialism in Europe: a godsend for the Beijing Communists -- 17 The UN and the changing meaning of an international community.