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• W4379420204 abstract "REVIEWS I73 interchange. The consequence has been the continuing economic decline of the RFE, its effective economic isolation, and its increased incapacity to deal with the challenge of integration into the broader economies of North East Asia. As Michael McFauleloquently argues, the futureof the RFE is perhaps the greatestchallenge for the Russian federal authoritiesand highlights their relativeimpotence in the face of local mafia-basedauthoritarianforces.As the other contributorsstress,the failureof the RFE to engage meaningfullywith the necessity to integrate in the broader economy of North East Asia only accentuates the challenges of managing their relationswith theirvastly more populated Chinese neighbour. The broaderregionalimplicationsof Chinese-Russianrelationsarecovered in the final section of the book. Martha Brill Olcott provides an insightful account of how the evolution of the relationship might impact on Central Asia. While noting that China is currentlysatisfiedwith a Russian hegemony of the region, she persuasively argues that China would be likely to fill any vacuum ifRussia'spost-imperialwithdrawalwere to continue. HarryGelman providesa contributionwhich looksmore broadlyinAsiatoJapan and Korea. It is a rather surprisingomission in Rapprochement andRivalry that there is no specific assessmentof the challenges presented to the United States from the burgeoning Sino-Russianrelationship. Overall, though, this is an informative and broadly balanced set of contributions which focus coherently on the key issues in the bilateral relationship. While attention is properly given to the multiple obstacles and weaknessesin the relationship,the book challengesthe assumptionthat this is a purelyrhetoricalor purelymalign strategicpartnership.As GilbertRozman argues,this is a relationshipwhich is 'likelyto endure and even to strengthen' (p. I49) and the challenge for the outside world is to channel this rapprochement in a broaderand positive multilateralframework. Geneva Centrefor Security Policy ROLAND DANNREUTHER Antohi, Sorin, and Tismaneanu, Vladimir (eds). Between PastandFuture.The Revolutions of1989 andTheirAfternath. CentralEuropeanUniversityPress, Budapest, 2000. xii + 4I4 pp. Notes. Index. fI 7.95 (paperback). THEeditors of this collection of essaysgive something of a hostage to fortune in situating this book within the 'retrospectiveand prospective ruminations' that the tenth anniversary of the fall of communist power in the erstwhile Eastern Europe has evoked, and in 'refraining from pushing for artificial consensus or superficialhomogeneity'. What keeps the book together is, the editorshope, a 'common quest for the meanings of what I989 epitomizes and symbolizes' (p. xii). With such a rationale the book is about as close to a dictionarydefinitionof a symposiumas one can get, and it has the meritsand faultsof a true symposium. It is difficult not to suspect that it is their confidence in the authors that enables the editors to riskan unorchestratedtext. Those twenty-two authors I74 SEER, 8o, I, 2002 include many who have made a distinguishedcontributionto the studyof the region and there is no room in a review to list all their particularmerits. In mentioning certainof them my intention is ratherto illustratethe themes that emerge fromthe workratherthan distributinglaurels. Two particularthemes standout. The firstconcernsthe natureof the events of I989 in the region. Here a menu of views is offered around the terms revolution(a number of authors,often subliminally),or 'refolution'(Timothy Garton Ash reproduces here his familiar mix of revolution and reform), or rebirth(KarolSoltan). A second theme is composite. At its centre are the questions raisedby the democraticaspirationsof the protagonistsin the eventsof I989 andthe upshot of these aspirations.Given the historyof the ten subsequentyears there is an air of melancholy over the discussion of these questions. From that core question of what became of the aspirationsof i 989 (concerning mostly the northern tier) stems a furtherquestion arising from the dismal events in the former Yugoslavia.What price the vaunted Western liberal democracy if it fails to cope with challenges within Europe itself? Among many perceptive views offeredI would directthe readerto those of MartinPalous,one of whose conclusions is that 'it is essential [. . .] to see the limitations of the liberal paradigm to understand not only the similaritiesbut also the differences between Europe before and after the ruinous attack on its identity by totalitarianideologies' (p. I I7). In so many ways we are presented with the geopolitics of Europebefore I939, and yet the worldhas moved on. To which it might be added thatwhilstdespondency in the face of Bosnia and Kosovo is justified, the challenge is a new one of universal importance as..." @default.
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• W4379420204 title "Between past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath by Sorin s> Antohi Vladimir Tismaneanu (review)" @default.
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