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Europe’s Post-Cold War Peace
Transatlantic Security Strategy and Russian Integration
Speakers:
Stephan Kieninger, Non-Resident Fellow, AGI and Affiliate, Cold War Studies Program, Harvard University
Daniel S. Hamilton, President, Transatlantic Leadership Network; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Moderator:
Jeff Rathke, President, AGI
After the Cold War, the United States and its NATO allies faced crucial questions about the evolving geopolitical landscape. Could Russia be integrated into the liberal international order? What roles should former Soviet republics and satellite states in Eastern and Central Europe play in the Euro-Atlantic security system? These questions have taken on renewed significance since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Stephan Kieninger’s book Securing Peace in Europe offers a new perspective on the NATO-Russia relationship through the eyes of Strobe Talbott, who served as Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton and was the key U.S. diplomatic broker for the former USSR.
This webinar examines Europe’s post-Cold War transformation and the U.S. role through the lens of Strobe Talbott, rebutting Putin’s claims that the West exploited Russia’s weakness after the Cold War, demonstrating that the Clinton administration and its NATO allies sought to include Russia at every step.
Stephan Kieninger is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American-German Institute and an affiliate of the Cold War Studies program at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in Modern History from Mannheim University and had previously been a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a postdoc at Johns Hopkins SAIS, a Fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, and a Senior Researcher at the Federal German Archives. He is the author of three books on U.S. foreign policy and European security in the Cold War and after, and has received fellowships from the German Historical Institute, the Hoover Institution, and the German Academic Exchange Service.
Daniel S. Hamilton is President of the Transatlantic Leadership Network, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he served as the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor (2003-12), the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor (2013-20), and founding director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations. Hamilton has taught at numerous universities, has held a variety of senior diplomatic positions, and is a regular commentator for U.S. and European media.
This session will convene via Zoom. Please contact AGI Program Associate Mr. Jack Fornasiero at jfornasiero@aicgs.org with any questions.
