Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: A Brief Note on Scholarship and Sources -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION Creating Post-Cold War Europe: 1989 and the Architecture of Order -- CHAPTER 1: What Changes in Summer and Autumn 1989? -- Tiananmen Fails to Transfer -- The Americans Step Back -- The Status Quo Ceases to Convince -- East German Self-Confidence Rises -- Television Transforms Reality -- CHAPTER 2: Restoring Four-Power Rights, Reviving a Confederation in 1989 -- On the Night of November 9 -- What Next? -- The Four (Occupying?) Powers -- Candy, Fruit, and Sex -- The Portugalov Push -- Specters Revive -- The Restoration and Revival Models Fall Apart -- CHAPTER 3: Heroic Aspirations in 1990 -- The Round Table -- Counterrevolution? -- The Consequences of the Brush with a Stage of Terror -- Emerging Controversy over Reparations and NATO -- "NATO's Jurisdiction Would Not Shift One Inch Eastward" -- Property Pluralism -- CHAPTER 4: Prefab Prevails -- The Security Solution: Two plus Four Equals NATO -- The Political Solution: Article 23 -- The Economic Solution: Monetary Union -- The Election Campaign and the Ways of the Ward Heeler -- The Results of March 18 -- Reassuring European Neighbors -- CHAPTER 5: Securing Building Permits -- The First Carrot: Money -- The Washington Summit -- The Second Carrot: NATO Reform -- Breakthrough in Russia -- Pay Any Price -- CONCLUSION: The Legacy of 1989 and 1990 -- Counterfactuals -- Consequences -- AFTERWORD TO THE NEW EDITION: Revisiting 1989-1990 and the Origins of NATO Expansion -- Introduction: Fading Memories -- Bearing Unwelcome Tidings -- Genscher's Thinking on NATO Expansion to Eastern Europe in 1990 -- The Split Between Bush and Baker -- Kohl and Gorbachev -- The Consequences of Camp David -- Conclusion: The Persistence of Preferred Memories.

Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.