Cold War Experts
Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor in History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
For the previous two and a half years, Klaus Larres was a distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress, a visiting professor at Yale University and a visiting professor and senior fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. Most of his academic career was spent in the UK where he held professorships at Queen’s...
Associate Professor in the School of International Studies, The Catholic University of Korea.
Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Erin Mahan is chief historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She previously served as associate research fellow at Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She is also an adjunct research historian for the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. From 2004-2008, she was chief of the then Division of...
Vojtech Mastny coordinates the CWIHP-affiliated Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact. He was NATO's first Manfred Wörner Fellow in 1996. Mr. Mastny has been professor of history and international relations at Columbia University, University of Illinois, Boston University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as well as professor of strategy at U.S. Na...
Military pensioner with the Service of Protection and Guard, Bucharest
His research focuses on the Cold War and military history, the security and foreign policy of Romania and the history of international relations. He was one of the associate researchers within the project coordinated by Professor Vojtech Mastny (“The Legacy of the Soviet Bloc-India Relations and US-Indian Strategic Partnership”, The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security, 2007-2010).
Woodrow Wilson Center
Christian F. Ostermann is director of the History and Public Policy Program (HAPP) as well as the director of European Studies (ES) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Under his purview as director of HAPP and ES, Ostermann also oversees the Cold War International History Program (CWIHP), the European Energy Security Initiative (EESI), the North Korea International Documentati...
James F. Person is the Senior Program Associate for the History and Public Policy Program and coordinator of the North Korea International Documentation Project. Person is editor of the NKIDP Working Paper Series and co-editor of the Cold War International History Project Bulletin and History and Public Policy Program Critical Oral History Conference Series. Person has worked as a consultant on hi...