Europe and America Beyond 2000 (Europe America Series)

One day this book will be useful to students of history, looking back at the 20th century and the end of the Cold War. It was published in 1990, in those transition years as the war was ending. Written when West Germany and East Germany still existed, but with the latter's future increasingly dim. The main speculation is the prospect of a unified Germany. Along with the future of NATO and the Soviet Union. The pros and cons of a single Germany are argued. Some suggesting that Germany had fundamentally changed, or at least western Germany under NATO and the European Union. The book still has no hint that the Soviet Union itself would dissolve, along with the Warsaw Pact. Many uncertainties are bruited about. Like the scenario of West Germany combining with East Germany and going into neutralism, as perhaps part of a Soviet machination. The hopes and fears chronicled here can already be compared to what eventuated.