Predicting the Unthinkable, Anticipating the Impossible : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the New Century.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition by Georgie Anne Geyer -- Preface by Irving Louis Horowitz -- Acknowledgments xxiii -- Part I: The Expectant Decade -- East Germany's Not at All like Its Image, Ron -- Berlin Wall is Just One Example of How the World is Split in Two -- Soviet Empire Begins to Crack -- Groping toward Pluralism -- Iranian Children Herded to Death -- We Still Can't Go Home Again -- Reagan Reforms: His View of Soviets -- Part II: The Conceit of Innocence -- Poland's Winning Ways with Freedom -- Policymakers Ignore New Trends in Terrorism -- Yugoslavia: Pulled Back to the Past and Ahead to the Future -- Sick with History, Kosovo Awaits Serbs' Final Blow -- The Conceit of Innocence II -- Who Killed Sir Michael Rose? -- U.N. and West Should Quit Playing "Dead Dog" in Bosnia -- UN Secretary-General Believes in Negotiating -- The United Nations and Neutralism -- Russians Slowly Learning New Way -- Unclear Indicator of the New Russia -- After 1,000 Years of Absolute Faiths, Russia Has None -- Russia Needed a New Identity, Not "Shock Therapy" -- Kazakh Leader Grapples with Change -- In Ironic Reversal, Little Finland Now In?uencing Giant Neighbor Russia -- Little Norway Goes Where Superpowers Cannot Trend -- Holland's "Managed Morality" -- The Cold War is Over but the Quest for Meaning Continues -- Should U.S. Troops Have Gone on to Baghdad? -- Seeking to Change Society by Force? -- End of Cold War Released Violent, Separatist Feelings -- Many Groups Are Aiding the Breakdown of Nation-States -- Sadat's Vision Made a Big Di?erence -- Lessons from the Death of a Cowboy -- Post-Cold War World Requires Institution-Building -- Foreign Policy Di?erences of Utopians and Realists -- Comandante Chavez Wants to Save Venezuela from "Abyss".

Marine Corps Experience is Applicable Elsewhere -- What the Listeners Might Hear in Havana -- Democracy is Process, Not Instant Co?ee -- Shanghai: Full of Life, But Going Where? -- Traditional Idea of Truth vs. Designer Truths -- Our Foreign Policy toward China is Delusional -- Part III: Terrorism an Era unto Itself -- Gov. George W. Bush is a Reasonable Reformer -- Bush's Faith-Based Program is Far Superior to Welfare State -- Putin Arrives -- Gulf War Did Not Change Saddam Hussein's Priorities -- Religious-Secular Tensions Divide Israel -- Clinton Foreign Policy is Devoid of Principle -- U.S. Must Preserve What is Left of Our Civic Ideals -- Internet Globalizers Can't Erase Cultural Di?erences -- In India the South Points the Way for the North -- Information without Context or Knowledge is Meaningless -- Afghani Radicals Foment Terror in Far-Flung Places -- America is Losing Its Sense of Self -- Haiti: Political Terrorism Hangs over Elections -- Part IV: Between Neutralism and Justice -- "Cultural Intelligence" was Sacri?ced on the Economic Altar -- Long-Term U.S. Goal: Collapse of Terrorist Network -- Winds of Change Keep Blowing over Bush White House -- Rootless Young Men May Become Civilization's Nemesis -- Palestinians Despair as Hope for Peace and Land Disappear -- Afghan Leader Abdul Haq was Rare Voice of Reason in Mayhem -- Renewed In?uence of Nation-States Marks Geopolitical Analysis -- Journalism for the Sheer Joy of It -- Pearl's Death Marks Cold New Reality for Foreign Correspondents -- Hawks' Eyes Look Longingly at War against Hussein -- With Queen Mother's Passing, Mothering Loses Great Exemplar -- U.S. No Longer Plays by the Rules It Helped to Invent -- Bush Sr. Sends Not-So-Subtle Message with Award to Kennedy -- Weapons of Mass Deception were Saddam's Greatest Defense -- Kuwait's Historical Example Holds Lessons about Iraq.

New Chapters Open in the Mystery behind the War -- Earlier Examination Identi?ed Disintegrating Nation-States -- Remembering Yitzhak Rabin: A Legacy of Peace Derailed -- "Mr. Rockefeller's Roads" Reveal Nature, Not Despoil It -- America's Abbreviated Experiment with Empire-Building -- "I Thought We Were Di?erent" -- Oman's Development an Instructive Model for Middle East -- Military Explores Traditional Power Centers in Chaotic Iraq -- European Union Continues toward Role as World Player -- Unity, Authority Were Missing Links in New Orleans Disaster -- The Dark Heart of Dick Cheney -- Peace is Not Fostered by Lip Service but by Patient Labor -- Referendum in Uganda O?ers Lesson for Emerging Democracies -- China's Star is Rising as a World Superpower -- Cohesive Future Depends on Comprehensive Newspaper Reporting -- Deconstructing Don Rumsfeld -- Baker on Cleanup Crew after "Sonny's" Big Adventure -- Without Newspapers, Americans Can't Understand the World -- Egyptian Cat Scholarship was Purely a Labor of Love -- In Wake of Iraq Miscalculations, Talk Turns to Iran -- Private Security Contractors Create Very Public Problems -- Boris Yeltsin Leaves Legacy of Contradiction -- Son Solves Mystery of Father's Death in Soviet Gulag -- Political, Not Religious, Issues are Motivating Terrorists -- War Costs Endanger Our Future Security -- Questions Remain in the Fall of Emperor Spitzer -- Zbigniew Brzezinski: Master of Foreign Policy -- Questions of War -- Market "Magic" Relied on Greed -- U.S. Can't A?ord More Mistakes -- America Has Lost Sight of Its Original Work Ethic -- Part V: The Present as Future -- The Original Community Organizer -- Counterinsurgency Doesn't Come Naturally to U.S. Forces -- Crisis Mode Dominates International Conference -- One Woman's Journey through the Health Care Jungle -- Obama Strategy to End War by Making War.

Next Stop: Yemen -- Is There a New Revolution Under Way in Iran? -- Afghan Morass -- Twentieth Anniversary of the Berlin Wall -- The Fault is in Ourselves -- Iraq War Still a Mistake -- Price of Peace in Europe -- Google in China -- How did We Ever Get to be So Incivil and Vulgar? Without Even Trying? -- Radical Young Terrorists aren't So Mysterious After All -- Part VI: Out of Time but in Space -- Chicago: Life is a Matter of "Becoming" -- Vietnam. Then Haiti Today -- Pacifst Policies, Appeasing Terrorism -- "Axis of Annoyance" Prevails in Latin America -- War on the Southern Border -- Spreading the Developmental "Gospel" -- African Illusions and Realities -- Germany's Isolation Collapsed with The Wall -- A Trip to Polish Roots -- Mothers: The Swing Generation for Women's Rights -- New South Africa Shines at the World Cup -- America's Little Wars are Draining Us in a Big Way -- Summer Home: The Past is No More -- Lessons from the Chicago South Side -- A Graduate Comes Full Circle -- Index.

In the 1980s, most Americans scoffed at the idea that the Communist empire could collapse - but Georgie Anne Geyer was already outlining that probability.

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