Consolidation of Democracy in Post-Communist Europe and Political Transformation in Central East Europe by Blerina Muskaj, Mirseda Shehdula

“…Thus, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the EU’s focus has been on regions where assistance and assistance programs are needed. …”
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Adventures in Communism: Counterculture and Camp in East Berlin by Jake P. Smith

“…Abstract | This essay examines the encounter between Western countercultural groups and the urban landscape of East Berlin in the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Focusing on squatted houses, the underground techno scene, and experimental art projects, the essay argues that countercultural groups who were active in East Berlin in the early 1990s developed a peculiar set of practices that were characterized both by their campy aesthetics and by their temporal indeterminacy. …”
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Neoliberalism, consumerism and the end of the Cold War by Priestland, D

“…As the Berlin Wall fell, the American academic Francis Fukuyama declared that state socialism had collapsed because it was on the wrong side of History in two respects: its rejection of liberal democracy had failed to grant the mass of people the ‘dignity’ they demanded; and its hostility to the market had prevented it from providing decent living standards for populations that had been living under it. 1 And while Fukuyama’s thesis on the inevitable victory of liberal capitalism has come under a great deal of criticism, his analysis of the reasons for communism’s failure has become commonplace – and especially its economic side. …”

Comparing post-socialist transformations: purposes, policies, and practices in education by Chankseliani, M

“…Spanning diverse geopolitical settings that range from Southeast and Central Europe to the Caucasus and Central Asia, the chapters in this volume offer analyses of education policies and practices that the countries in this region have pursued since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.…”

Expropriation in the 21st Century – New Challenge for Political Risk Analysis by A. N. Bordovskikh

“…With the end of the third wave of democratization, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the active liberalization of new markets, research interest in political risks, including threats of expropriation of foreign capital, weakened, giving way to mainly economic indicators of the investment climate. …”
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COVID-19 Impacts on Historic Soundscape Perception and Site Usage by Pamela Jordan, André Fiebig

“…However, these assessments were found to be capable of shifting in the historic setting of the Berlin Wall Memorial. Providing contextual information from the past appears to have some bearing on soundscape perception. …”
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Daily Mobility in Berlin by Joachim Scheiner

“…Analysing activity spaces in four small-scale study areas on both sides of the former Berlin wall, there is evidence for significant differences between adjacent areas on both sides of the former wall as well as between different groups within an area. …”
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Worldwide bilateral geopolitical interactions network inferred from national disciplinary profiles by M. G. Izzo, C. Daraio, L. Leuzzi, G. Quaglia, G. Ruocco

“…Starting from the Essential Science Indicators (ESI) schema of classification of subject areas, we obtained the yearly disciplinary profiles of a worldwide graph, where on each node sits a country, in the two time intervals 1988–1988 and 1992–2017, the fall of the Berlin Wall being the watershed. We analyze the empirical pairwise cross-correlation matrices of the time series of disciplinary profiles. …”
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Contemporary world migration - towards new terminology, patterns and policies by Šantić Danica, Spasovski Milena

“…In the last decades, after the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin wall, the strengthening of overall population mobility is evident on local, regional, national and global scale. …”
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El nuevo dilema de la izquierda: identidad vs justicia social by José María Seco Martínez, Rafael Rodríguez Prieto

“…Since the fall of the Berlin Wall it was widely exceded by neocapitalism. …”
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The New Left in the European Democracies: The Case of the German Radical Left by Marco Damiani, Lorenzo Viviani

“…The choice was affected to the German model because: 1) Germany is a country with a strong social democratic tradition, but 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall the German political system identifies a new antagonist political party; 2) Die Linke represents an interesting case in the political landscape of the European radical left because is a one-party that gives up at the federation of parties to try to unify the political parties of German radical left-wing.…”
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Socialist Postmodernism. Conceptual and comparative analysis of recent representative architecture in Pyongyang, Astana and Ashgabat, 1989-2014 by Jelena Prokopljevic, Charles K. Armstrong

“…Studies of socialist architecture have rarely included postmodernism until the fall of the Berlin Wall, identifying the appearance of the neo-historicist or technologically inspired forms with the restoration of capitalism, as an opposition to reduced forms (colours and materials) of socialist modernism. …”
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Collapse of strategic thinking, research and governance in Serbia and possible role of the spatial plan of the Republic of Serbia (2010) in its renewal by Vujošević Miodrag

“…Early reforms in Serbia (Yugoslavia) were announced immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From the beginning of the 1990s few attempts of the kind announced have taken place, and, altogether, they still remain more or less uncompleted. …”
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Swedish Military Bases of the Cold War: The Making of a New Cultural Heritage by Per Strömberg

“…The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union completely transformed the military-political situation in the Nordic countries. …”
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Faire famille entre le Mozambique et l’Allemagne : parcours biographiques de migrants mozambicains arrivés comme travailleurs contractuels en République démocratique allemande (RDA... by Ines Grau

“…After the fall of the Berlin Wall, only a minority of them remained in Germany. …”
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The Role of Reunified Germany in Poland’s Accession to NATO and the European Union by Józef Fiszer

“…Today, thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, we can see that the black scenarios that were outlined in 1989-1990 did not actually come true. …”
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Conflicto entre memorias y entre generaciones: La muchacha de las bragas de oro, de Juan Marsé, y Stille Zeile sechs, de Monika Maron by Patricia Cifre Wibrow

“…Abstract   By means of a detailed analysis of these two novels we compare the different strategies that were used to process the memory conflict which arose in Spanish transition to democracy and in the former German Democratic Republic after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Interest is focussed on the different roles attached to questioning as a weapon which younger generations wielded against their elders. …”
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Tremulous lines : the alternative history of a site of exception by Solis Loza, Cristina.

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Is East-West Life Expectancy Gap Narrowing in the Enlarged European Union? by Domantas Jasilionis, France Meslé, Jacques Vallin

“…The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 and EU enlargement in 2004 are two major political events in the recent history of the Central and Eastern European region. …”
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Cosmological Methodological Prism of the Conceptual Demarcation of Culture and Civilization by Zoreslav Samchuk, Lesya Panchenko

“…Currently, there is an unequivocal awareness of the inappropriateness of the illusions associated with the global world order formed on the ruins of the Berlin Wall according to the patterns of neoliberalism. …”
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