Creating Post–Cold War Europe: 1989 and the Architecture of Order
Creating Post–Cold War Europe: 1989 and the Architecture of Order
This introductory chapter describes how, for roughly a year following the collapse of the old order in November 1989, various groups of actors competed and struggled vigorously to re-create order in a way most advantageous to themselves. The longer-term goal, of course, was to dominate that order in the post-Cold War world. Again and again, key actors in 1989–90 employed the terminology of architecture to describe what they wanted: to start building anew, to construct a European roof or a common European home, to create a new transatlantic architecture, and so on. Leaders consciously proposed a number of competing blueprints for the future and described them as such. This metaphoric understanding, on top of its historical evidence, is an apt one for a study centered on Berlin, where so much real architecture went up after the wall came down.
Keywords: 1989, post-Cold War Europe, old order, architecture, transatlantic architecture, blueprints, Berlin, Berlin wall, European home
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