Das andere Ende der Geschichte

In 1989, the West emerged as the sole victor of history. Today, that triumphalism sounds more than stale. What went wrong? In a series of thematically intertwined essays, the award-winning historian Philipp Ther seeks an answer. He addresses, among other things, the economic policy missteps since reunification, analyzes the development of the USA since the Clinton years, and questions why Russia and Turkey have turned away from the West. Building on Karl Polanyi's groundbreaking book "The Great Transformation," Ther recaps the rapid changes of the last three decades, which had just as dramatic consequences west of the former Iron Curtain as they did east of it.