Johns Hopkins SAIS experts available to discuss 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall

EXPERT ADVISORY
November 9 marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—the most visible symbol of the Cold War—and in advance of this date, several experts on U.S. and German foreign policy at Johns Hopkins SAIS are available to provide commentary on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
 

• Conditions that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
• Unification of Germany
• Collapse of the Iron Curtain
• Lasting impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall

 
Washington, DC-based experts
 
Daniel S. Hamilton is the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor and directs the Foreign Policy Institute’s “The United States, Europe, and World Order” program at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He was the founding director of the school’s Center for Transatlantic Relations, and for fifteen years served as executive director of the American Consortium for EU Studies. He has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff for U.S. Secretaries of State Madeleine K. Albright and Warren Christopher, and Senior Policy Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard C. Holbrooke. His book “Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers: Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership” was named “#1 Global Policy Study of the Year” in 2016.
 
Mary Elise Sarotte is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies. Sarotte is also a research associate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies. She is the author or editor of five books, including “The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall” and “1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe,” both of which were selected as Financial Times’ Books of the Year, among other awards. Sarotte is a former White House Fellow, a former Humboldt Scholar, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
 
Kristina Spohr is the Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center on Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a member of the International History Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Spohr has worked as a research fellow in the Secretary General’s Private Office at NATO headquarters in Brussels. She has authored several books, most recently, “The Global Chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the Reshaping of the International Order.” Her forthcoming book “Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989” is scheduled for release in fall 2019.
SAIS Europe-based experts (Bologna, Italy)

Mark Gilbert is a professor of History and International Studies. Gilbert is also a fellow of the Royal Historic Society. He is author of “Cold War Europe: The Politics of a Contested Continent” and “European Integration: A Concise History” and co-authored “The World Since 1945.”  Before joining Johns Hopkins SAIS, he was associate professor in Contemporary History and International Studies at the University of Trento and lecturer in European Studies at the University of Bath.

John L. Harper is the Kenneth H. Keller Professor of American Foreign Policy. He is a member of the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, Italy, serves as contribution editor of Survival, and is a former German Marshall Fund research fellow. Harper is author of “The Cold War” and “American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson.” He was awarded the Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Erik Jones is director of European and Eurasian Studies and professor of European Studies and International Political Economy. He has written and co-edited several books including, “The Oxford Handbook of the European Union” and, together with Johns Hopkins SAIS Adjunct Professor Dana Allin, co-authored “Weary Policeman: American Power in an Age of Austerity.” Jones is a frequent commentator on European politics and has been published in Financial Times, The New York Times, USA Today, and magazines and newspapers across Europe.

To schedule an interview, contact:
Jason Lucas (for DC-based experts)
Communications Manager
Johns Hopkins SAIS
office: +1 (202) 663-5620
mobile: +1 (202) 422-2652
[email protected]
 
Susannah B. Tillson (for SAIS Europe-based experts)
Director of Marketing & Communications
SAIS Europe
office: +39 051 291 7886
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