Rödder, Andreas Der verlorene Frieden

Vom Fall der Mauer zum neuen Ost-West-Konflikt

In 1990, a new era seemed to be dawning: the era of a liberal world order, of peace, and of democracy. Today, that order lies in ruins. How were the opportunities that presented themselves with the end of the Cold War allowed to slip away? Why, thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, does war once again prevail in Europe? Andreas Rödder recounts the history of the lost peace of 1990 and asks what alternatives might have existed. In 1990, the West believed that its own values ??would prevail globallyalmost as if by historical law. There might be setbacks, and it might take time for the last remaining autocracies to vanish. But there was no doubt regarding the direction of history. Yet this was a misconceptionone that bred hubris. As the Wests geopolitical power waned, authoritarian counter-modelspredicated on imperial rule and hegemonic spheres of influencemade a resurgence. Andreas Rödder traces the history of global politics since 1990, exposing the roots of todays global disorder. In doing so, he demonstrates that the world is not heading toward a multipolar orderas many believebut rather toward a new East-West conflict, one to which the West must adapt if it wishes to hold its ground.