Laos in the Vietnam War: The Politics of Escalation, 1960-1973 by Patit Paban Mishra

“…Compared to the contemporaneous Berlin Wall Crisis and Cuban Missile crisis, the events in Laos had been pushed back by scholars without it receiving much attention. …”
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Mapping Divided Cities and their Separation Walls: Case Studies from Berlin and Jerusalem by Christine Leuenberger

“…Jerusalem and Berlin are particularly powerful symbols of political partition as the Berlin Wall split the city of Berlin for over 26 years and Jerusalem remains a divided city to this day. …”
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Who Governs? by Brian SCHMITT

“…In addition, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991 set into place a dramatic restructuring of international relations, including the opportunity for a more unified global economy. …”
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Defence diplomacy and international relations by Davor Ćutić

“…Significant changes in international relations have occurred over the last 30 years. The fall of the Berlin Wall can be perceived as the start of a new era because nothing has been the same since. …”
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Think Tanks y Centros de Estudio. Los nuevos mecanismos de influencia política en el Chile post-autoritario by Manuel Gárate

“…Following the American pattern of a "market of ideas" where it seems that what matters in decision making is not democratic legitimacy but the influence over the bureaucrats who provide planning and management in policymaking, these organizations have proliferated to a global level, especially after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Chile is considered within this trend, although it adopted an early and peculiar evolution as a consequence of its recent history. …”
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Revoluția pașnică și căderea Zidului. RDG în toamna 1989 (The peaceful Revolution and the fall of the Wall. GDR in the fall of 1989) by Robert GRÜNBAUM

“…The emotional climax of the revolutionary autumn of the 1989 was clearly the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9. The word that everybody was able to hear again and again, was simply: "Crazy!". …”
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Glocality and Cosmopolitanism in European Crime Narratives by Monica Dall’Asta, Natacha Levet, Federico Pagello

“…Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the European crime genre has increasingly exploited the diversity of European cultures and landscapes to create engaging narratives able to travel transnationally. …”
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Zehn Jahre gemeinsame Planung von Berlin und Brandenburg by Stefan Krappweis

“… The states of Berlin and Brandenburg, for centuries component parts of one common state, sought co-operation immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and in a very short time they were able to formulate initial common foundations for planning. …”
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Whirlpool Slovakia: Leader in Whirlpool Worldwide Network by Sona Ferenčiková, Artur Rubens, Roland Bardy

“…The fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution, and many other similar events ultimately led to the breakup of the Soviet Union and the opening of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) from a planned economy, modeled after the former Soviet Union, to a free market economy. …”
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Envisioning Unity: The Media Discourse in South Korea and Germany on National Unity. A Longitudinal Study on Emerging Transnational Public Spheres by Lars Rinsdorf, Petra Werner, Hwa-Haeng Lee

“…However, this appears to be fragile and strongly driven by the fall of the Berlin Wall as a key event with global impact.…”
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Breaking Down Walls by James Cleverley

“…Nuance in this regard is as vital as ever: memories of the German Democratic Republic remain contested, despite three decades having passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An analysis of technologies and techniques of filmmaking is tied together with central focus on the embodied spectator’s perception within the film-experience; this study touches on the “memory work” (Kuhn) of This Ain’t California through an investigative framework that considers the relations between two bodies – those belonging to both viewer and film. …”
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An International ‘Non-revue’: Cultural Conflict and the Failure of Gulliver (1964) by Silvia Cavalli

“…These difficulties worsened after the construction of the Berlin Wall: the urgency of German writers to reflect upon their historical condition collided with the French authors’ preference to represent contemporary society. …”
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Laos in the Vietnam War: The politics of escalation, 1960-1973 by Mishra, Patit

“…Compared to the contemporaneous Berlin Wall Crisis and Cuban Missile crisis, the events in Laos had been pushed back by scholars without it receiving much attention. …”
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Serbia between western individualism and orthodox collectivism by Milić Slobodan

“…In Eastern European countries, individualism became relevant after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Up to then, the collectivist spirit prevailed. …”
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The Polish Paradox: From a Fight for Democracy to the Political Radicalization and Social Exclusion by Zofia Kinowska-Mazaraki

“…It was the Polish Solidarity movement that started the peaceful revolution that subsequently triggered important democratic changes on a worldwide scale, including the demolition of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism and the end of Cold War. …”
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INTRODUCTION: CHANGING ECONOMIES AND CHANGING SOCIETIES IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: POST-SOCIALIST CASE STUDIES by Miladina Monova

“…Three decades after the fall of the Berlin wall, these societies can no longer be understood within the analytical frame of post-socialist, the one that has been often used in analyses of postulating an uni-linear model of transition from socialism to capitalism. …”
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RUSSIFICATION IN MODERN DAYS : ANALYZING GEORGIA AND UKRAINE SEPARATISTS AS RUSSIA STRATEGY AGAINST NATO’S EXPANSION by Raninta Salwa Ginano, Sugeng Riyanto

“…The tension between Russia and NATO back to the first attempt of NATO’s enlargement by the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989 followed by Soviet acceptance of German reunification in NATO in July 1990. …”
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Introduction by Heyck, Hunter, Kaiser, David I

“…Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cold War looks ever more like a slice of history rather than a contemporary reality. …”
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The effect of electoral institutions on party membership in central and east Europe by Smith, A, Dr Alison F Smith

“…However, more than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, membership levels vary considerably between countries, and also between individual parties within party systems. …”

Present-day Importance of Krleža’s Interpretation of Artistic Motifs on Bosnian Medieval Tombstones by Senadin Musabegović

“…The reason for the persecution of the members of the Bosnian Church back in the day was religious, whereas in the 1950s when Yugoslavia was fighting for its independent road towards further building socialism, the split was purely ideological. When the Berlin Wall fell and Yugoslavia was crushed by aggressive nationalist politics, many intellectuals found Krleža’s observations on the importance of the Bosnian medieval tombstones an expression of naïve romanticism, or an ideological construction hiding Tito’s absolute power, and his thirst for power and ethnic balancing. …”
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