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VistasAuthor: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
Vistas is the podcast of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. In an accessible and relevant approach, Vistas delves into history to provide some of the most important backstories to today's foreign policy challenges. Language: en Genres: History, Science, Social Sciences Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Construction of Post-Cold War Europe's Security Structure
Monday, 5 June, 2023
In this episode, Distinguished Professors of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Mary Sarotte, joined us to discuss the end of the Cold War, NATO expansion, the United States' relations with Europe and Russia in the 1990s,and its reverberations for today. Professor Mary Elise Sarotte is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. Her six books include Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate (2021), The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall (2014), and 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe(2009), which were named Financial Times Books of the Year (2009 and 2014), Economist Book of the Year (2014), and Foreign Affairs Book of the Year (2021), among receiving other prizes and awards. Sarotte earned her AB in History and Science at Harvard University and her PhD in History at Yale University. After graduate school, she served as a White House Fellow and subsequently joined the faculty of the University of Cambridge. Sarotte received tenure at Cambridge in 2004 and returned to the United States to teach at University of Southern California as the Dean's Professor of History before moving to Hopkins. Sarotte is a former Humboldt Scholar, a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
