文档介绍：Bogdan Denitch is the leading Democratic leftist intel-
lectual on Eastern Europe. His fascinating treatment of the
end of the cold war is the best analysis available."
— Cornel West
Bogdan Denitch has written a cogent and realistic analysis
of the prospects for a 'new Europe,' from a roughly social
democratic point of view. His work shows an intimate
acquaintance with the political trends and social develop-
ments of contemporary Europe, and not the least of its
virtues is a readiness to be critical of the political tradition
from which he himself writes."
— Irving Howe
gainst the backdrop of unprecedented change in the
A world political and social order, Bogdan Denitch charts
the unique opportunities and potential pitfalls that
pany the increased economic and political inte-
gration of the munity. Historically, any
move toward unification has had broad ramifications. This,
coming as it does in the wake of recent democratic
upheavals in Europe, will bring to a close an entire era—an
era of a world dominated by superpowers and the cold war
that defined their confrontations.
Bogdan Denitch is one of the few Eastern European and Soviet
experts to have predicted the revolutions within Eastern Europe
in 1989. He is professor of political sociology at CUNY
Graduate Center and Queen's College and the author of Limits
and Possibilities: The Crisis of Yugoslav Socialism and State
Socialist Systems (Minnesota) and The Socialist Debate:
Beyond Red and Green.
Contents
Preface: The End of the Cold War, Background and
Consequences ix
Introduction: European Unity: A Unique Historical
Opportunity 3
1. European Security Unity and the End of the Cold War 15
2. The Germanys, German Unity and European Autonomy 30
3. The End of an Empire: Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union 45
4. European Social Democracy: The promise
64
5. The Euroleft, Socialists, and the New Social Movements 81
6. A New Europe: