Hoover Senior Fellow Philip Zelikow discusses how the unification of East and West Germany was achieved in 1990. Diplomatic maneuvering. Based on the Philip Zelikow – Condoleezza Rice papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, and a book by Zelikow and Rice, titled: “Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft” (Cambridge, Mass., 1995).
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