Professional Affiliation

Director, Bendesinstitut fur Ostwissenschaftliche und Internationale Studien

Wilson Center Project

Security, Diplomacy, and Propaganda in Soviet Foreign Policy: The Euromissile Controversy, 1979-1983

Project Summary

Examines foreign policy and domestic propoganda in regard to the Euromissile controversy. Uses this confrontation to probe Soviet policy, contentional diplomacy, propaganda, Western communist parties and front movements, as they were mobilized to block Western efforts to counter the Soviet buildup of SS-20s and other threatening Soviet movies.