In
this work Alexandre Muns analyzes and describes the political, economic and
social forces and the roles played by politicians and high-ranking officials
from the United States, the former Soviet Union, the Federal Republic of Germany,
the former German Democratic Republic and other countries in enabling international
diplomacy to achieve the historic success of peacefully reunifying Germany in
less than a year as a fully sovereign and democratic state. Interviews with
many of the key officials in the negotiations reveal how the western powers
seized the opportunity presented by the popular democratic revolution in the
GDR in 1989 to engineer German reunification on terms largely favorable to the
West.
