Stephan Kieninger
Biographic Data
| ID | 6496962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan Kieninger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan |
| FAMILY NAME | Kieninger |
| SIGNATURE | KIENINGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent historian |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reassessing the Disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991
Mark Kramer, The Fate of the Soviet Bloc's Military Alliance: Reform, Adaption, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 75 pp. $77.00 hardcover, $25.00 eBook.Based on extensive archival research in many repositories in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mark Kramer's concise book recounts the fate of the Warsaw Pact states and the alliance itself after Mikhail Gorbachev's ascent to the…
The Bush and Clinton Administrations and Ukraine’s Nuclear Dismantlement, 1991–1994
The collapse of the Soviet Union posed the greatest non-proliferation problem since the beginning of the atomic age. Would Ukraine be willing to abandon the nuclear weapons on their territory and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state? Based on recently declassified archival sources, this article investigates how the Geoge H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations pursued Ukraine’s nuclear dismantlement through a mix of …
The 1999 Kosovo War and the Crisis in U.S.-Russia Relations
Based on recently declassified U.S. sources from the Clinton Presidential Library and the State Department’s Freedom of Information Act Virtual Reading Room, this article looks into Bill Clinton’s and Boris Yeltsin’s statecraft to save the post-Cold War U.S.-Russia partnership during the Kosovo War in 1999. The war deepened the rift between Russia and the West jeopardizing the policy of mutual integration and accommodation. Clinton’s and Yeltsin’…
A preponderance of stability
Diplomacy beyond deterrence
The military aspects of Helmut Schmidt’s policy have been examined in depth. This article argues that Schmidt’s diplomacy went beyond deterrence. His Ostpolitik statecraft was aimed at the establishment of sustainable structures of cooperative security in East-West relations. It facilitated the strategic energy partnership between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union. Schmidt’s economic détente outlasted the crisis of US-Soviet re…
A preponderance of stability
Diplomacy beyond deterrence
The military aspects of Helmut Schmidt’s policy have been examined in depth. This article argues that Schmidt’s diplomacy went beyond deterrence. His Ostpolitik statecraft was aimed at the establishment of sustainable structures of cooperative security in East-West relations. It facilitated the strategic energy partnership between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union. Schmidt’s economic détente outlasted the crisis of US-Soviet re…
The 1999 Kosovo War and the Crisis in U.S.-Russia Relations
Based on recently declassified U.S. sources from the Clinton Presidential Library and the State Department’s Freedom of Information Act Virtual Reading Room, this article looks into Bill Clinton’s and Boris Yeltsin’s statecraft to save the post-Cold War U.S.-Russia partnership during the Kosovo War in 1999. The war deepened the rift between Russia and the West jeopardizing the policy of mutual integration and accommodation. Clinton’s and Yeltsin’…
The Bush and Clinton Administrations and Ukraine’s Nuclear Dismantlement, 1991–1994
The collapse of the Soviet Union posed the greatest non-proliferation problem since the beginning of the atomic age. Would Ukraine be willing to abandon the nuclear weapons on their territory and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state? Based on recently declassified archival sources, this article investigates how the Geoge H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations pursued Ukraine’s nuclear dismantlement through a mix of …
Reassessing the Disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991
Mark Kramer, The Fate of the Soviet Bloc's Military Alliance: Reform, Adaption, and Collapse of the Warsaw Pact, 1985–1991. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 75 pp. $77.00 hardcover, $25.00 eBook.Based on extensive archival research in many repositories in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Mark Kramer's concise book recounts the fate of the Warsaw Pact states and the alliance itself after Mikhail Gorbachev's ascent to the…
Politics (5 works) · Foreign policy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Diplomacy (3 works) · Economic history (3 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (3 works) · Soviet union (3 works) · Arms control (2 works)