Draft conference program

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  Odd Arne Westad (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
  
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  Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics)
  
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  Jeremi Suri (University of Texas at Austin)
  
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  Anne Deighton (University of Oxford)
  

Chair: Jussi Hanhimäki (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

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  Susan Colborn (University of Toronto): Reagan as an ‘Atlantist’: NATO’s role in US policy
  
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  Simon Miles (University of Texas at Austin): the Reagan administration’s initial engagement with Soviet Union
  
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  Tom Blanton (The National Security Archive, Washington DC): Reagan, Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War
  

Comments: Jeremi Suri (University of Texas at Austin)

Chair: Geir Lundestad (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel II: Developments in the Soviet bloc

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  Wolfgang Muller (Austrian Academy of Sciences): The role of second rank political actors in ending the Cold War
  
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  Svetlana Savaranskaya (The National Security Archive, Washington): Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe
  
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  Robert Brier (German Historical Institute in Warsaw): US support for East European dissidents, the end of the Cold War and the contested meaning of human rights
  

Comments: Vladislav Zubok (LSE)

Chair: Odd Arne Westad (Harvard University)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.30 Panel III: The ‘Arc of Crisis’ and its impact on the end of the Cold War

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  Sean Kalic (US Army Command and Staff College, Kansas): The unattended consequences of US policy in Afghanistan
  
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  Barbara Zanchetta (The Graduate Institute, Geneva): Arming the ‘freedom fighters’: from the Carter doctrine to the Reagan doctrine
  
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  Malcolm Byrne (The National Security Archive): The Iran-Iraq war and its repercussions
  

Comments: Olav Njolstad (Norwegian Nobel Institute)

Chair: Michael Cox (LSE)
17.30-19.00 Keynote speech and aperitif:
Geir Lundestad (Norwegian Nobel Institute): “A prize winning performance: Mikhail Gorbachev, the Nobel Peace Prize and the End of the Cold War.”
19.30 Conference Dinner

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  Bernhard Blumenau (The Graduate Institute, Geneva): German foreign policy and the ‘German problem’ before and after unification
  
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  Eleonora Guasconi (University of Genoa): The Single European Act, European political cooperation and the end of the Cold War
  
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  Ruud Van Dijk (University of Amsterdam): Peace activists and the end of the Cold War: the case of the Dutch Inter-Church peace council
  

Comments: Anne Deighton (University of Oxford)

Chair: Mario del Pero (Science Po, Paris)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Panel V: Eastern European developments

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  Sielke Kelner (The Graduate Institute, Geneva): The survival of the Socialist Republic of Romania at the end of the Cold War: dependency on the bipolar world
  
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  Maximilian Graf (Austrian Academy of Science): The opening of the Austria-Hungarian border revisited: how European détente contributed to overcoming the Iron Curtain
  
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  Paul Maddrell (University of Loughborough, UK): The KGB, the Stasi and the End of the Cold War
  

Comments: Svetlana Savaranskaya (The National Security Archive, Washington DC)

Chair: Federico Romero (European University Institute)
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Panel VI: Negotiating the end of arms race or managing continued Cold War? The impact of nuclear arms control

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  James Graham Wilson (Office of the Historian, US Department of State): SALT II and the INF Treaty
  
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  Andrea Chiampan (The Graduate Institute): Did Nuclear Weapons? Evidence from the TNF/INF Controversy, 1973-1983
  

Comments: Olav Njolstad (The Norwegian Nobel Institute) and Leopoldo Nuti (University of Roma III)

Chair: Christian Ostermann (The Wilson Center, Washington DC)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Discussion: Accessing sources on the end of the Cold War

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  Matthew Connelly (Columbia University)
  
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  Tom Blanton (National Security Archive, Washington DC)
  
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  Christian Ostermann (The Wilson Center, Washington DC)
  

Chair: Jussi Hanhimaki (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

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  Jussi Hanhimäki (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
  
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  Mahmoud Mohamedou (Geneva Centre for Security Policy and Graduate Institute)
  
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  James Goldgeier (American University)
  
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  Michael Cox (LSE)
  
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  Odd Arne Westad (Harvard University)
  

Chair: Barbara Zanchetta (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)

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  Chris Miller (Yale University): The Tiananmen Crisis and Soviet debate about Perestroika
  

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  Fredrik Stocker (Uppsala University, Sweden) – The economic ‘Westernization’ of Soviet Estonia
  

Comments: Vladislav Zubok (London School of Economics)

Chair: Svetlana Savaranskaya (The National Security Archive)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-1200 Panel VIII: The End of the Cold War and the rise of non-state actors

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  Timothy Nunan (Harvard University): Humanitarian invasion: the Soviet Union and Humanitarianism in Afghanistan
  
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  Riina Turtio (The Graduate Institute): Private military companies in Africa and the end of the Cold War
  

Comments: Christian Ostermann (The Wilson Center, Washington DC)

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  Michael Cox (London School of Economics)
  
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  Leopoldo Nuti (University of Rome III)
  
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  Mario del Pero (Science Po, Paris)
  
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  Federico Romero (EUI)
  
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  Olav Njolstad (The Norwegian Nobel Institute)