Luca Ratti gives you new insights into the role of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in German reunification, and examines the impact that Germany's reunification had on Anglo-American and transatlantic relations.

Germany's unification in October 1990 was one of the most momentous events in modern European history and world politics since the end of World War II. German unity ended the Cold War in Europe, accelerated the collapse of communist regimes across Eastern Europe, and the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. It also triggered NATO's transformation at the London and Rome...

Case Studies in International Security. From the Cold War to the Crisis of the New International Order presents a number of case studies that shaped prevailing security perceptions in world politics during and after the Cold War, framing their analysis in a comparative perspective. Its contributors address U.S. and European views of, and approaches to, the emergence and transformation of the transatlantic system during the Cold War, security discourses and practices in the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America, and the renewal of the transatlantic relationship in the early 1990s and in...