Kristina Spohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristina Spohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Spohr |
| SIGNATURE | SPOHR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Finland Goes West
On 4 April 2023, almost three decades after joining the European Union, Finland became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In doing so, the small Nordic country on Europe's northeastern flank became fully integrated into the “institutional West,” shedding more than 70 years of a delicate balancing act between East and West. What, beyond the exogenous shock of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, led to this outcom…
The war in Ukraine
This short article offers some tentative suggestions about how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath as experienced by Central and Eastern European states may inform our understanding of the current war in Ukraine. In doing so, this contribution has no pretensions to be either final in its suggestions nor exhaustive in considering the rich literature about Central and Eastern Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural \nCold War ex…
Untangling the Inner Contradictions in Reagan's Soviet Policies
Over the past three decades, the literature on the Reagan era has grown steadily. Its component parts are, by and large, familiar to any student of history. The first wave consisted of memoirs by contemporary political actors, along with journalistic accounts, all of which express clear judgments of the presidency, either positive or negative. Then came a second wave of scholarly assessments by political scientists, economists, and IR specialists…
With or without Russia? The Boris, Bill and Helmut Bromance and the Harsh Realities of Securing Europe in the Post-Wall World, 1990-1994
Much controversy exists over the making of Europe’s security architecture after the end of the Cold War, specifically how and why the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] emerged as the preferred solution to the continent’s security conundrum, and where this development left Russia. These questions have puzzled historians and political scientists. Crucially, they also continue to resonate politically, as the Ukraine crisis of 2021/22 shows. …
Europe's Postwar Periods-1989, 1945, 1918
Ending the Cold War and Entering a New Era
November 01 2021 Ending the Cold War and Entering a New Era: Perspectives on To Build a Better World Philip Zelikow, Philip Zelikow Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Condoleezza Rice, Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice is director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford Universit…
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII
Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII: Britain and the revolutions in eastern Europe, 1989 Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII: Britain and the revolutions in eastern Europe, 1989. Edited by Richard Smith. Abingdon: Routledge. 2020. 404pp. £120.00. Isbn978 1 13860 958 7. Available as e-book. Kristina Spohr Kristina Spohr SAIS Johns Hopkins University, USA Corresponding author: [email protected]…
Paul Preston’s The Spanish Holocaust and Recent Historiography on the Spanish Second Republic
Germany, America and the shaping of post-Cold War Europe
German reunification within NATO in 1990 marked the end of the Cold War. It also cemented America's role as a ‘European power’. By focusing on three key moments in German-American security relations in 1989-90, this essay explains how this outcome materialised. For Chancellor Helmut Kohl, driving the process of unification offered Germans the prospect of international emancipation after four decades of limited sovereignty. For President George H.…
Helmut Schmidt and the Shaping of Western Security in the Late 1970s
On 5 and 6 January 1979, US President Jimmy Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt met on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. These secret talks à quatre were intended to be a relaxed frank and free exchange on the current state of global politics, though Western security issues lay at the discussions’ heart. As we now know, it had been Schmidt who, behind th…
Precluded or Precedent-Setting? The “Nato Enlargement Question” in the Triangular Bonn-Washington-Moscow Diplomacy of 1990–1991
Controversy arose in the mid-1990s when Russian officials accused Western governments of reneging on binding pledges made to Moscow in 1990 during German unification diplomacy. According to the allegations, Western leaders had solemnly promised that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would never expand beyond Germany into Central and Eastern Europe. Were such pledges ever made? Was the Soviet Union betrayed, and if so, by whom, how, an…
German Unification
Ten years after German unification, this historiographical review discusses how the cascade of published material reflects on two questions vital for contemporary history on this subject: first, why and how did unification happen, and second, what kind of sources and evidence are used by authors to justify their particular interpretation of events? In answering these questions, this review will not only give an overview of published accounts – of…
Precluded or Precedent-Setting? The “Nato Enlargement Question” in the Triangular Bonn-Washington-Moscow Diplomacy of 1990–1991
Controversy arose in the mid-1990s when Russian officials accused Western governments of reneging on binding pledges made to Moscow in 1990 during German unification diplomacy. According to the allegations, Western leaders had solemnly promised that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would never expand beyond Germany into Central and Eastern Europe. Were such pledges ever made? Was the Soviet Union betrayed, and if so, by whom, how, an…
German Unification
Ten years after German unification, this historiographical review discusses how the cascade of published material reflects on two questions vital for contemporary history on this subject: first, why and how did unification happen, and second, what kind of sources and evidence are used by authors to justify their particular interpretation of events? In answering these questions, this review will not only give an overview of published accounts – of…
Helmut Schmidt and the Shaping of Western Security in the Late 1970s
On 5 and 6 January 1979, US President Jimmy Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt met on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. These secret talks à quatre were intended to be a relaxed frank and free exchange on the current state of global politics, though Western security issues lay at the discussions’ heart. As we now know, it had been Schmidt who, behind th…
The war in Ukraine
This short article offers some tentative suggestions about how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath as experienced by Central and Eastern European states may inform our understanding of the current war in Ukraine. In doing so, this contribution has no pretensions to be either final in its suggestions nor exhaustive in considering the rich literature about Central and Eastern Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural \nCold War ex…
With or without Russia? The Boris, Bill and Helmut Bromance and the Harsh Realities of Securing Europe in the Post-Wall World, 1990-1994
Much controversy exists over the making of Europe’s security architecture after the end of the Cold War, specifically how and why the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] emerged as the preferred solution to the continent’s security conundrum, and where this development left Russia. These questions have puzzled historians and political scientists. Crucially, they also continue to resonate politically, as the Ukraine crisis of 2021/22 shows. …
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Germany, America and the shaping of post-Cold War Europe
German reunification within NATO in 1990 marked the end of the Cold War. It also cemented America's role as a ‘European power’. By focusing on three key moments in German-American security relations in 1989-90, this essay explains how this outcome materialised. For Chancellor Helmut Kohl, driving the process of unification offered Germans the prospect of international emancipation after four decades of limited sovereignty. For President George H.…
German Unification
Ten years after German unification, this historiographical review discusses how the cascade of published material reflects on two questions vital for contemporary history on this subject: first, why and how did unification happen, and second, what kind of sources and evidence are used by authors to justify their particular interpretation of events? In answering these questions, this review will not only give an overview of published accounts – of…
Precluded or Precedent-Setting? The “Nato Enlargement Question” in the Triangular Bonn-Washington-Moscow Diplomacy of 1990–1991
Controversy arose in the mid-1990s when Russian officials accused Western governments of reneging on binding pledges made to Moscow in 1990 during German unification diplomacy. According to the allegations, Western leaders had solemnly promised that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would never expand beyond Germany into Central and Eastern Europe. Were such pledges ever made? Was the Soviet Union betrayed, and if so, by whom, how, an…
Helmut Schmidt and the Shaping of Western Security in the Late 1970s
On 5 and 6 January 1979, US President Jimmy Carter, British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt met on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. These secret talks à quatre were intended to be a relaxed frank and free exchange on the current state of global politics, though Western security issues lay at the discussions’ heart. As we now know, it had been Schmidt who, behind th…
Germany, America and the shaping of post-Cold War Europe
German reunification within NATO in 1990 marked the end of the Cold War. It also cemented America's role as a ‘European power’. By focusing on three key moments in German-American security relations in 1989-90, this essay explains how this outcome materialised. For Chancellor Helmut Kohl, driving the process of unification offered Germans the prospect of international emancipation after four decades of limited sovereignty. For President George H.…
Paul Preston’s The Spanish Holocaust and Recent Historiography on the Spanish Second Republic
Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII
Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII: Britain and the revolutions in eastern Europe, 1989 Documents on British policy overseas, series III, volume XII: Britain and the revolutions in eastern Europe, 1989. Edited by Richard Smith. Abingdon: Routledge. 2020. 404pp. £120.00. Isbn978 1 13860 958 7. Available as e-book. Kristina Spohr Kristina Spohr SAIS Johns Hopkins University, USA Corresponding author: [email protected]…
Ending the Cold War and Entering a New Era
November 01 2021 Ending the Cold War and Entering a New Era: Perspectives on To Build a Better World Philip Zelikow, Philip Zelikow Philip Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance at the University of Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Condoleezza Rice, Condoleezza Rice Condoleezza Rice is director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford Universit…
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Untangling the Inner Contradictions in Reagan's Soviet Policies
Over the past three decades, the literature on the Reagan era has grown steadily. Its component parts are, by and large, familiar to any student of history. The first wave consisted of memoirs by contemporary political actors, along with journalistic accounts, all of which express clear judgments of the presidency, either positive or negative. Then came a second wave of scholarly assessments by political scientists, economists, and IR specialists…
With or without Russia? The Boris, Bill and Helmut Bromance and the Harsh Realities of Securing Europe in the Post-Wall World, 1990-1994
Much controversy exists over the making of Europe’s security architecture after the end of the Cold War, specifically how and why the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] emerged as the preferred solution to the continent’s security conundrum, and where this development left Russia. These questions have puzzled historians and political scientists. Crucially, they also continue to resonate politically, as the Ukraine crisis of 2021/22 shows. …
Europe's Postwar Periods-1989, 1945, 1918
The war in Ukraine
This short article offers some tentative suggestions about how the history of the Cold War and its aftermath as experienced by Central and Eastern European states may inform our understanding of the current war in Ukraine. In doing so, this contribution has no pretensions to be either final in its suggestions nor exhaustive in considering the rich literature about Central and Eastern Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural \nCold War ex…
Finland Goes West
On 4 April 2023, almost three decades after joining the European Union, Finland became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In doing so, the small Nordic country on Europe's northeastern flank became fully integrated into the “institutional West,” shedding more than 70 years of a delicate balancing act between East and West. What, beyond the exogenous shock of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, led to this outcom…
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