The End of the Cold War
Two historic transformations are under way in the Europe of the early 1990s. The first, sparked by the revolutions of autumn 1989, is the democratization of Eastern Europe. The second, driven by Jacques Delors and supported by Francois Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl, is the rapid movement towards European integration, both economic and political.In this timely and persuasive intervention, Bogdan Denitch argues that such a fateful conjunction offers an extraordinary opportunity for the European left. The historic antagonism between Communists and social democrats has been removed, whilst new institutions are being elaborated which could facilitate a pan-European progressive alliance. The reconstruction of Eastern Europe, the unification of Germany, inadequate democracy in the European Community and the acknowledged need to negotiate a new social charter, pose a challenging agenda for the parties and social movements of the left across Europe.Denitch argues that the emergence of Europe as a