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As I write this review there is a Russian army encamped on Ukraine's eastern border while President Putin demands that Ukraine must never be admitted to NATO. How on earth did we get here only three decades after the remarkable events of 1989 and 1990? This is a superb book by Kristina Spohr. In 600 pages of text, she describes the fall of the Soviet empire in 1989 and 1990, and the negotiations that resulted in the world as we know it today. The story is brilliantly told and reads almost like a thriller. The twists and turns of the negotiations are followed in precise detail without ever feeling tortuous. And yet it is impossible to skip-read this book; readers will get drawn deep into the policy implications on every page and paragraph. It requires several days of intense concentration. The narrative is fascinating in many different ways. The sheer

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