Expert Bio

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. Naval War College. His latest book, The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years, was the winner of the American Historical Association's 1997 George L. Beer Prize.