We had a chance: thirteen years at the helm of the IMF/ Michel Camdessus.

Foreword; Thursday, 18 December, 1986 -- An Unlikely Election; The Last Devaluation of the Franc; I: Fall of the Wall -- Transition in the East; 9 November, 1989 -- The Berliners Destroy the Wall; An Empire Collapses; USSR: The Union Disintegrates; Boris Yeltsin's Russia; Ukraine, Independent at Last?; Thirteen Fragments of Empire Let Loose; II: Third World Debt and Development at a Standstill; Winter 1987 -- Reconnaissance; What Can Be Done for the Poorest Nations?; From Crisis to Crisis, Reforms in Africa; Mandela and De Klerk -- Two Men, One Pardon; Franc Zone: Devaluating for Renewal; From Summit to Summit, From Cooperation to Partnership; The Debt; Latin America on the Move; Towards the Complex Orient; III: Some Mid-way Thoughts; Broadening the Way We Look at the Problems of Poverty; Reopening Systemic Reforms; IV: The First Crises of the 21st Century; Mexico, 20 December, 1994 -- First Day of a New Century; Asia: From an Awakening to Turmoil; Asia on the Edge of the Storm; 1996-2000 -- The 21st Century Was Underway in Moscow; V: Defining a New Structure for the System; Learning from the Crisis; Going Further; Passing on a Mission; Multilateralism, the Warmth of Humankind, and Fellowship; Thanks