Book Launch: Exiting the Cold War, Entering a New World

Description

This fall marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. This book explores how and why the dangerous yet seemingly durable world order forged during the Cold War collapsed in 1989, and how a new order was improvised out of its ruins. It is an unusual blend of memoirs by senior officials who were directly involved in the decisions of that time, and contributions by scholars who have been able to draw on newly declassified archival sources to revisit this challenging period.

featuring

Horst Teltschik: Former National Security Advisor to Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Former Chairman, Munich Security Conference

Mary Sarotte: Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; author, The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall and 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe

Kristina Spohr: Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; author, Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 and Co-Editor, Open Door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security after the Cold War

Daniel S. Hamilton: Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; author, *Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic and Co-Editor, Open Door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security after the Cold War

Philip Zelikow: Professor of History, University of Virginia; former counselor, U.S. Department of State; author (with Condoleezza Rice), To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth and *Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft", supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Federal Foreign Office.

Copies of the book will be available