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The aim of this chapter is to provide a framework for understanding the policies of different Atlantic states and social forces in the circumstances that accompanied the demise of the Soviet bloc. It is an argument of this chapter that ultimately, the collapse of the USSR and the defeat of the rapprochement between important segments of West German capital (and implicitly, segments of organized labour) and the tottering Soviet giant, may be seen as part of a single process.
I owe a debt to Stephen Gill, the editor of this collection, for his detailed suggestions for a reorganisation of the original paper; and to my colleague in Amsterdam, Cees Wiebes, as well as participants at the August 1993 MUNS meeting in Vikersund, Norway (in particular Magnus Ryner), for critical comments. None of those mentioned are in any way responsible for the contents of this chapter.
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F. Clairmonte, Le Monde Diplomatique, April 1990, p. 15.
G.-A. Astre in Le Monde Diplomatique, June 1984, p. 16.
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van der Pijl, K. (1997). Atlantic Rivalries and the Collapse of the USSR. In: Gill, S. (eds) Globalization, Democratization and Multilateralism. Multilateralism and the UN System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25555-9_9
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