Wilson Center Experts
Bernd Schaefer
Senior Scholar
Cold War International History Project
Contact Information:
T (202) 691-4312
// F (202) 691-4001
Expertise:
Cold War
; Diplomatic History
; North Korea
; South Korea
; Southeast Asia
; Germany
Wilson Center Project(s):
"Tigers in the Valley: East Asia and the Superpowers, 1968-1976"
Term:
Oct 01, 2011
Sep 30, 2013
Dr. Bernd Schaefer is Cold War International History Project Senior Research Scholar. Previously he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C. and the Hannah Arendt Institute at the Technical University of Dresden. He also served four years as secretary for the East German Catholic Church's Stasi lustration commission in Berlin.
Education
B.A. and M.A., University of Tübingen; MPA, Harvard University; Ph.D., Martin Luther University, Halle
Expertise
International History, History of Asian and European Communism, German History
Major Publications
- Ostpolitik, 1969–1974: European and Global Responses, edited with Carole Fink (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989 (New York: Berghahn, forthcoming 2009)
- Historical Justice in International Perspective: How Societies are Trying to Right the Wrongs of the Past, edited with Manfred Berg (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- North Korean ‘Adventurism' and China's Long Shadow, 1966-1972 (CWIHP Working Paper # 44, 2004);
- American Détente and German Ostpolitik, 1969-1972 (Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2004)
- Stasi Files and GDR Espionage against the West, (Oslo Institute for Defence Studies, 2002)
- Staat und katholische Kirche in der GDR, 1945-1989 (Boehlau: Weimar, 2nd ed. 1999) (2nd ed. 1999, currently translated for Berghahn Books, New York)
- Kirche im Visier: SED, Staatssicherheit und Katholische Kirche in der DDR (1998)
Previous Terms at the Wilson Center:
June 1, 2007 - September 30, 2011
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Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, 1971-1975
Jul 07, 2011NKIDP Working Paper #2, “Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, 1971-1975,” written by Bernd Schaefer, analyzes North Korea’s unification policy during the early 1970s, a period, as Schaefer argues, when North Korea held its last best chance to unify the Korean peninsula under its own auspices. more
North Korean "Adventurism" and China's Long Shadow, 1966-1972
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The Rise of Kim Jong Il - Evidence from East German Archives
Dec 21, 2011NKIDP e-Dossier No. 4, "The Rise of Kim Jong Il - Evidence from East German Archives," was released in the wake of Kim Jong Il's death and features four East German documents which reveal that the late North Korean leader had been groomed from as early as 1974 to take over the helm of the North Korean state.
Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, 1971-1975
Jul 07, 2011NKIDP Working Paper #2, “Overconfidence Shattered: North Korean Unification Policy, 1971-1975,” written by Bernd Schaefer, analyzes North Korea’s unification policy during the early 1970s, a period, as Schaefer argues, when North Korea held its last best chance to unify the Korean peninsula under its own auspices.
North Korean "Adventurism" and China's Long Shadow, 1966-1972
Jul 07, 2011CWIHP Working Paper No. 44