Conclusion and Perspectives

Abstract

In the 1990s, democratisation and the restructuring of the Soviet and East European economies along market-oriented lines will be dominant factors in the construction of a new Europe. Much of the outcome of this effort will depend on forms of co-operation with the West, in particular with the EC and the G7. In mid-1991 differences still persisted between the Germans and the Americans on the question of direct economic assistance to the Soviet Union. But these differences had narrowed when developments favoured by the West were threatened by internal Soviet instability.