Bernd Schaefer
CWIHP Senior Scholar
June 2007 - October 2011
Phone: (202) 691-4110

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)
  

Biography
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

Cold War International History Project
Woodrow Wilson Center
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Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
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Tel: 202/691-4110