Events
Communist Romania's Cultural Cold War, 1947-1960
May 14, 2009 // 12:30pm — 2:00pm
Cristian Vasile, Wilson Center public policy scholar and Romanian short-term scholar
Truman's Campaign of Truth and Canada's Cultural Cold War
May 06, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
A discussion hosted by the Canada Institute and the History and Public Policy Program focused on how the Cold War affected and shaped Canadian culture from 1945 to 1965. Frank Ninkovich and Paul Hjartarson offered compelling reasons to study culture as a means of diplomacy.
North Korean Attitudes Toward China: A Historical View of Contemporary Difficulties
April 06, 2009 // 2:30pm — 4:30pm
Jin Linbo, The Brookings Institution, John S. Park, United States Institute of Peace, James F. Person, the Woodrow Wilson Center's North Korea International Documentation Project, Amb. J. Stapleton Roy, the Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, Bernd Schaefer, the Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project, Amb. Richard Solomon, United States Institute of Peace
A New Look Back: Reagan and the End of the Cold War
March 31, 2009 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
James Mann, Foreign Policy Institute Author-in-Residence, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
The Securitate Files: Silviu Brucan and the Communist Regime in Romania in the 1980s
March 26, 2009 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Radu Ioanid, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Gheorghe Campeanu, international banking consultant, and Mircea Raceanu, retired Romanian diplomat
Dean Acheson and the Creation of an American World Order
March 18, 2009 // 3:30pm — 5:00pm
Robert J. McMahon, Ralph D. Mershon Professor of History, The Ohio State University; Anna Kasten Nelson, Distinguished Historian in Residence, American University; Elizabeth Edwards Spalding, Associate Professor of Government and Director of Washington Program, Claremont McKenna College
Offsite Event: History, Memory, and Politics: A Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and its Legacy, 1989-2009
March 06, 2009 // 11:00am — 3:45pm
Book Launch—The Bomb: A New History
February 27, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
author Stephen M. Younger, former Senior Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Work in Progress: "The Vietnam-Soviet Union-China Triangle Relations during the Vietnam War (1964-1973) from Vietnamese Sources" with Pham Quang Minh
February 20, 2009 // 11:00am — 12:30pm
The Nuclear Challenge: Italian Foreign Policy and Atomic Weapons, 1945-1991
February 17, 2009 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
Leopoldo Nuti, Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies; Amb. Richard Gardner, Columbia University; James Miller, Georgetown University and Department of State Foreign Service Institute