Three Decades Later: A Reflection on Transatlantic Democracy Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

An interview with John Shattuck, professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fletcher School and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is presented. Shattuck said that, there was no question that things were changing not only in Eastern Europe but also...

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Published in:The Fletcher forum of world affairs 2020-01, Vol.44 (1), p.143-152
Main Author: Shattuck, John
Format: Article
Language:English
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Amnesties
Berlin Wall
Civil rights
Democracy
Democratization
Diplomacy
Genocide
Human rights
Internet
National and Regional Case Studies
Nonprofit organizations
Politics
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Summary:An interview with John Shattuck, professor of Practice in Diplomacy at the Fletcher School and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is presented. Shattuck said that, there was no question that things were changing not only in Eastern Europe but also in the Soviet Union. The Soviet watchers were paying close attention to changes in the economy and the Gorbachev phenomenon, which began in the mid-1980s after Chernobyl. There were winds of change to be felt. In my own experience, there's an anecdote that captures the situation. There was a lot of hope. Fukuyama, in many respects, reflected a widely held hope that the kind of change that had swept through Eastern Europe would be coming rapidly and continuously. There were plenty of signs of that in the early days. We sometimes forget how rapidly the political transformation came in Eastern Europe, and also in South Africa.
ISSN:1046-1868