Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds on their new anthology
In 1989 and 1990 the map of Europe was redrawn without a war. How did this happen? And what was the impact of summits, how, indeed, did they evolve? What was the role of individual leaders such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev or Willy Brandt, Helmut Kohl and Deng Xiaopeng? Are there lessons to be learned against the backdrop of today's international crisis? Bernd Greiner (Berlin) discusses with Kristina Spohr (London) and David Reynolds (Cambridge), the editors of "Transcending the Cold War. Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970-1990" (Oxford University Press 2016).