in collaboration with
TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE FALL
A reappraisal of1989
Rome 9-10 October 2009
Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
Sala IGEA - piazza dell’Enciclopedia Italiana 4
PROGRAM
Friday 9 October
9.30 introduction
GIUSEPPE VACCA
10.00 -11.00
SILVIO PONS
Conceptualizing 1989:
the Historical Perspective
FEDERICO ROMERO
The Road to 1989: the International Factors
11.30 -13.00 debate
15.00 -19.00
NORMAN M. NAIMARK
The Superpowers and 1989 in Eastern Europe
MARK KRAMER
Crisis and Dissolution of the Soviet Bloc
ABBOTT GLEASON
"The Pope and I did everything":
Anti-Communism and the End of the Soviet Union
discussants:
ANDREA GRAZIOSI, LUKASZ KAMINSKI, MIKHAIL NARINSKY
Saturday 10 October
9.30 -13.00
MARIO D. NUTI
The Former Soviet Union after Dis-Integration and Transition
VESSELIN DIMITROV
Post-Communism in East Central Europe
ROBERTO GUALTIERI
Post-Communism in Italy
discussants:
MARC LAZAR, VICTOR ZASLAVSKY
15.00
MARIO DEL PERO
Old and New Declinisms: the Debate on America's Decline
and the Rise of New Powers
MARCELLO DE CECCO
Globalization and the International System
ANTONIO VARSORI
Europe after 1989: the Strategy of Enlargement
discussants:
RICHARD CROCKATT, GIOVANNI GOZZINI
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