"When you return to the West," Kublai [Great Khan] asks Marco Polo, "will you repeat to your world the same stories you tell me?" "I speak, I speak," says Marco, "but whoever listens to me only retains in his mind the words he expects to hear. The description of the world is different when you hear it with a good mood, different from the one that will go around the beggars and the gondoliers on the ground floor of my house on the day of my return, different from the one I could dictate at an advanced age, if I happened to be imprisoned by Genoese pirates and thrown into the dungeons in the same cell with an adventure book writer. What governs the narration is not the voice: it is the ear." (I. Calvino, "Invisible Cities")

The fall of the Berlin Wall and all its symbols still reaches deafeningly to the ears of the world. Its narration needed a corresponding ending, praising in the best way the euphoria of the victors. The world of the new post-Cold War empire resonates internally with the end of History, while at the same time War continues conventionally and with other terms on the new fronts of the new History, now hearing narratives about planetary politics and biopolitics. In the era of the state of exception and the state of emergency as a permanent rule of politics, those who can impose their decisions and those who come to interpret "binding supposedly objective principles" as true are both involved in the struggle for sovereignty.

The texts included are:

History and Society
- Nikos Mouzelis, "Why did the wall fall? A historical-comparative approach"
- Zisis D. Papadimitriou, "The construction and fall of the Berlin Wall"
- Yiannis D. Stefanidis, "Resignation from the empire. The Soviet leadership and the changes in Eastern Europe, 1988-89"
- Stratos N. Dordanas, "Germany's 'Chinese Wall': the Berlin Crisis (1961) and Southeastern Europe"
- Hagen Fleischer, "The German-Greek ... triangle, 1949-1989: political expediencies and committed memories of the two German states and Greece"
- Alexandros Afouxenidis, "Civil Society in post-communist Europe"
- Argiris Kyridis, Christos Zagkos, "Someone wrote it on the 'wall' with paint..." Social, political, historical and artistic impressions on the Berlin Wall"

International Law
- Petros Liakouras, "The dissolution of the former Yugoslavia and the emergence of new states in international law"
- Miltiadis Sarigiannidis, "'Walls' and 'security fences' in the international legal order"
- Nikos Zaikos, "Reflections on the international legal regulation of post-Cold War warfare"
- Antonis Bredimas, "The protection of human rights in the US and Europe after 1989: parallel or divergent lives?"
- George Kyriakopoulos, "The submission of the 'common heritage of mankind' to the laws of the market: the renegotiation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea"

International Relations
- Kyriakos D. Central, "The EU after the fall of the Berlin Wall: between incomplete integration and the 'walled' State" - Sotiris Serbos, "The enlargement policy of the EU in the light of Euro-Atlantic relations: past, present and future" - Manos Karagiannis, "Russian foreign policy in former Yugoslavia" - Dimitris Akrivoulis, "The Wall that never fell: The post-Cold War conceptualization of the Fall of the Wall in Western political rhetoric" - Nikolaos Panagiotou, Christos A. Fragkonikolopoulos, "Interpretative frameworks and regulatory images of mega-events: The coverage of the 'wall of history' by Greek newspapers in 1989 & 2009"

Economy - Konstantinos Chazakis, "The state-market interaction in the transitioning economies of the Western Balkans" - Christos Nikas, Dimitrios Aspasios, "Developments in intra-Balkan migration from the beginning of the transition to the current economic recession"

Art and culture - George Stavrianos, "The fall of the wall: an awkward aesthetically and politically controversial proposal" - Giannis Ziogas, "German painting in the 1980s: precursor or propagandist of the fall of the Wall?" - Eleni G. Gavra, Dimitra Vitoula, Konstantina-Vasiliki Iakovou, "Berlin after the Fall of the Wall: the shaping of the new urban landscape in Europe"