1989 and the Architecture of Order

Mary Sarotte, “1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post-Cold War World”
In this talk, Professor of History Mary Sarotte (University of Southern California) vividly recounts the dramatic events of 1989. Drawing on newly released documents from Washington, Moscow, Warsaw, East Berlin, Bonn, and London, Professor Sarotte shows how U.S., Soviet, British, French, West German, and East German leaders competed to advance their visions for post-Cold War Europe. The decisions they made had far-reaching consequences and helped to shape the era we inhabit today.

Mary Elise Sarotte is associate professor at the University of Southern California in the School of International Relations. She specializes in international relations in the 20th century. She is the author of Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Detente, and Ostpolitik (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) and German Military Reform and European Security (Oxford University Press, 2001). Professor Sarotte is currently working on a monograph on the history of the late Cold War.

Cosponsored by CCWS, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, and the Department of History

hm 1/15/09; 1/21; tt 1/21; jwil 23.i.09