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October, 2009
Book Discussion: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
Monday, October 19 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
David Hoffman, Contributing Editor, The Washington Post
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Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia
Friday, October 09 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University, Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park, and Eric Lohr, Associate Professor of History, American University
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Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better Than a War
Thursday, October 01 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
W.R. Smyser, Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar, Library of Congress and Adjunct Professor, BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University; Mary Beth Stein, Associate Professor of German and International Affairs, The George Washington University; R. Gerald Livingston, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, German Historical Institute; Bernd Schaefer, Senior Scholar, Cold War International History Project
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September, 2009
Soviet-Taiwanese Relations During the Early Cold War
Wednesday, September 23 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Shin Kawashima, Japan Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Director's Forum: The Enlargement of the European Union
Tuesday, September 22 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Michael Leigh, Director-General for Enlargement, European Commission
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U.S.-Dutch Relations in the Post-1945 Era
Friday, September 18 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
L. Paul Bremer III, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands; Renée Jones-Bos, Dutch Ambassador to the U.S., Cornelis A. van Minnen, Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Hans Krabbendam, Assistant Director, Roosevelt Study Center; Giles Scott-Smith, Senior Researcher, Roosevelt Study Center
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July, 2009
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
Monday, July 20 2009, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York at Albany; David S. Patterson Yale University; Stan Riveles, Institute for Defense Analyses
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That Little Infernal Cuban Republic:
U.S. Policies Toward Cuba in Historical Perspective
Wednesday, July 15 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Lars Schoultz, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tomás Bilbao, Cuba Study Group
Ignacio Sanchez, DLA Piper
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June, 2009
Idealists Against Ideologues: A Case Study in the Political History of the Romanian Intelligentsia
Wednesday, June 10 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mihail Neamtu Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar and Romanian Short-Term Scholar
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Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975
Tuesday, June 02 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
John Prados, the George Washington University's National Security Archive, Larry Berman, University of California, Davis, Thomas Hughes U.S. State Department (ret.)
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May, 2009
Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967
Wednesday, May 20 2009, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sergey Radchenko, London School of Economics; Mark Kramer, Harvard University
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Truman's Campaign of Truth and Canada's
Cultural Cold War
Wednesday, May 06 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Paul Hjartarson, Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, and 2009 Fulbright Chair in Canada-U.S. Relations; Frank Ninkovich, Professor of History, St. John’s University
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March, 2009
The Securitate Files: Silviu Brucan and the Communist Regime in Romania in the 1980s
Thursday, March 26 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Radu Ioanid, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gheorghe Campeanu, international banking consultant, and Mircea Raceanu, retired Romanian diplomat
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February, 2009
Book Launch—The Bomb: A New History
Friday, February 27 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
author Stephen M. Younger, former Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Book Discussion: "Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia"
Monday, February 23 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Jonathan Brent, editorial director, Yale University Press
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Work in Progress: "The Vietnam-Soviet Union-China Triangle Relations during the Vietnam War (1964-1973) from Vietnamese Sources" with Pham Quang Minh
Friday, February 20 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991
Tuesday, February 17 2009, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Leopoldo Nuti, Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies; Amb. Richard Gardner, Columbia University; James Miller, Georgetown University and Department of State Foreign Service Institute
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Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
Tuesday, February 03 2009, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Viktor Suvorov, military historian and former intelligence officer, GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army)
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Woodrow Wilson Center
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1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
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