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In his new capacity as President of South Africa, FW de Klerk directly experienced for the first time how the international community had abandoned its support for minority white rule.
East Germans feel alienated and powerless. They see themselves as second-class citizens, while outsiders live high on what is rightfully theirs.
When the wall fell – education equality did too.
Berlin’s rapid transformation is proof that cities can overcome conflict – but the fight against injustice doesn’t end there.
The decision to move the Stasi files into the German national archive has sparked debate of how memories of life before reunification should be handled.
The collapse of the East German economy following unification has combined with racism and neoliberalism to feed far right support.
A media historian uses declassified government documents to show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
Marking the end of the Cold War offers the chance to reflect on the changes and continuities in African politics and international relations since 1989.
Young people from both East and West Germany congregated in nightclubs which were hastily thrown up in the spaces where the Wall had dominated.
In 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced that history had ended. How wrong he was.
It would be easy to assume that outbreaks of extreme-right groups in the former east are a legacy of its communist past, but the idea does not bear scrutiny.
Protected from development, natural landscapes worldwide are emerging from the violence of war.
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, covert surveillance images offer us an unparalleled look at the lives of people trying to escape from the east to the west.
Without its communist Soviet-style economy, North Korea would just be South Korea.
Though the fall of the Berlin Wall did not bring along the utopia many had hoped for, it is a symbolic moment for the victors of the Cold War.
In the mid-1980s Germany was wracked by a toxic ‘Asyldebatte’ that bears similarities to what’s happening today.
Made up almost entirely of West Germans, the roster of Germany’s national soccer team reflects divisions that remain almost 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the age of rampant consumerism, there is nonetheless an odd nostalgia for socialist regimes and symbols. What does it mean?
At a time when young people across the West are increasingly sceptical about liberal democracy, the Netflix series Babylon Berlin reminds us of the lessons to be learnt from the history of the Weimar Republic.
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in International History, Flinders University
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Reader in Political Economy, Brunel University London
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Social Psychology IPU Berlin and Visiting Professor of Social and Political Psychology, Coventry University, Coventry University
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Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London
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Assistant Professor in Economics, Maastricht University
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Assistant Professor of International Education, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
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Senior Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of International Relations, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
