I am a professor of political science and research director of the Program on Global Security of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University. A native of Saint Louis, Missouri, I received my B.A. in 1964 from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Special Program in European Civilization, and my Ph.D. in politic...

Konrad Jarausch has been the author or editor for about 40 books on European and German History in the last two centuries.

A. Ross Johnson is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, adviser to the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Archive Project at Hoover, and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson  International Center for Scholars.Johnson was a senior executive of RFE/RL from 1988 to 2002, serving as director  of Radio Free Europe, director of the RFE/RL Research Institute, and acting president...