Events
Between the Crescent and the Swastika: The Emergence of Political Islam in Germany
November 26, 2007 // 11:30am — 1:00pm
with Dr. Stefan Meining, Wilson Center public policy scholar, and German public television editor
Democracy as a Challenge - The 2007 Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture, with Anatoli Mikhailov
November 15, 2007 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
On November 15, 2007, the Woodrow Wilson Center co-hosted the third annual Ion Ratiu Democracy Lecture in collaboration with the Ratiu Family Foundation and the Ratiu Democracy Center. The recipient of this year's award, Dr. Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector of the European Humanities University, currently in exile in Vilnius, Lithuania delivered a speech on Democracy as a Challenge. An introduction by former ambassador to Belarus, David Swartz, preceded Professor Mikhailov's address.
Between the Lines: A Documentary Film
November 09, 2007 // 3:00pm — 6:00pm
Dirk Simon, film's author, director, and co-producer; Hope M. Harrison, director of GWU's Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Stefan Meining, Wilson Center public policy scholar, and editor for German public television; Christian Ostermann, director of the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program, Andreas Prothmann, counselor for political affairs at the German Embassy, and Bernd Schäfer, Senior Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson Center's Cold War International History Project and Parallel History Project associate and former research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington
Film Screening-- The Collapse of the Soviet Union
October 25, 2007 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
Igor Grazin, co-producer and scriptwriter; Member of Parliament, Estonia; and former Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Discussant: Thomas Blanton, Director, National Security Archive, George Washington University
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev
October 16, 2007 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Book Discussion: Soft Power and Its Perils: U.S. Cultural Policy in Early Postwar Japan and Permanent Dependency
October 09, 2007 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Speaker: Takeshi Matsuda, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
For the Soul of Mankind -- event video now available
September 25, 2007 // 4:00pm — 6:00pm
with Melvyn P. Leffler, Stettinius Professor of American History, University of Virginia, former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, and author, 'For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union and the Cold War; andRobert S, Beisner, Professor Emeritus, American University, and author, Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War (2006).
The Cold War and the Korean Peninsula: State Formation and Foreign Relations of North and South Korea
September 21, 2007 // 8:30am — 5:00pm
Poland in 1956 - New Interpretations of the Social Protest and Political Crisis
September 19, 2007 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
North and South Korean Strategies for Re-unification during the Cold War: New Revelations from the Archives
July 20, 2007 // 3:00pm — 4:00pm
Christian Ostermann, Director, North Korea International Documentation Project; Meung-Hoan Noh, Director, Institute of History and Culture, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea; Bernd Schafer, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute in Washington and CWIHP Senior Research Scholar; Commentator:Miryang Youn, Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, Deputy Director General, Office of South-North Dialogue, Ministry of Unification, Republic of Korea