Friday, September 13, 2013
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Welcome by Katharina Kucher & Georg Schild
Heads of Project at the Collaborative Research Center 923
Welcome by Ewald Frie
Head of the Collaborative Research Center 923
Introduction by Martin Deuerlein & Roman Krawielicki
Organizers of the Conference
4:00 - 6:15 pm, Panel 1, The Shock of Globalization?
Chair: Klaus Gestwa
“Reduced to ‘Handmaidens‘ of OPEC and the Soviet Union: The
October War, Oil, and the Origins of the Second Cold War, 1973-
1983“ - John Rosenberg (Brown)
“Oil, the Persian Gulf, and the Second Cold War“ -
Victor McFarland (Yale)
“Western Europe and China‘s Great Transformation“ -
Martin Albers (Cambridge)
6:30 - 7:30 pm, Dinner
7:30 - 8:30 pm, Keynote I
Chair: Georg Schild
“Detente’s Failure and Soviet Collapse: A Search for Historical
Causality“ - Vladislav Zubok (London)
Saturday, September 14, 2013
8:00 - 9:00 am, Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 am, Panel 2, The 1970s
Decade of Uncertainty, Decade of Ideas?
Chair: Martin Deuerlein
“Beyond the Wall: The Trilateralist Approach of the Carter
Administration“ - Fulvio Drago (Rome)
“‘Making Lions Lie Down with Lambs?’ The Resumption of the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks after President Carter’s Accession
to Office in the Spring of 1977” - Arvid Schors (Freiburg)
10:30 - 11:00 am, Coffee Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm, Keynote II
Chair: Klaus Gestwa
“Globalization and Eastern Europe” -
Mark Kramer (Harvard)
12:15 - 1:15 pm, Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 pm, Panel 3, The Role of Experts
Chair: Katharina Kucher
“The Soviet and East European Branch of the USIA Office of
Research” - Steven Grant (Washington)
“From Pashtunwali to Communism? Soviet Advisors in Southern
Afghanistan an dthe Soviet War in Afghanistan, c. 1979-1989”
Timothy Nunan (Oxford)
3:00 - 4:30 pm, Panel 4, Transnational Actors
Chair: Carl Bethke
“Perception of the Other - East and West German Analysts in
Mutual Perception, 1970-1989” -
Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch (Mannheim)
“Unconditional Friendship? Soviet ‘Friendship Societies’ in
Western Europe and the Challenges of the ‘Second Cold War’”
Sonja Großmann (Munich/Tuebingen)
4:30 - 5:00 pm, Coffee Break
5:00 - 6:30 pm, Panel 5, 1983
Chair: Georg Schild
“The 1983 War Scare: ‘The Last Paroxysm’ of the Cold War” -
Nathan Jones (Washington)
“The Able Archer 83 Non-Crisis: Did Soviet Leaders Really Fear
an Imminent Nuclear Attack in 1983?” - Mark Kramer (Harvard)
6:30 - 7:30 pm, Dinner
Sunday, September 15, 2013
8:00 - 9:00 am, Breakfast
9:00 - 11:15 am, Panel 6, The 1980s - Decade of Fear, Decade of Trust?
Chair: Roman Krawielicki
“The Challenge of Peace: The Reagan Administration and Anti-
Nuclear Activism in the 1980s” - Henry Maar (Santa Barbara)
“Nuclear Arms Control and the Politics of Trust in the Reagan
Administration” - Laura Considine (Aberystwyth)
“Ethnicity and Revolution at the End of the Cold War: The
Case of Nicaragua’s Miskitu Indians“ - David Lee (Temple)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm, Lunch
12:30 pm - 14:00 pm, Panel 7, Legacies of the Cold War?
Chair: Johannes Großmann
“The Cold War and Terrorism: Two Sides of the Same Coin?“ -
Bernhard Blumenau (Geneva)
“Discoursive Construction of the ‘Terrorist Threat’ in the
Reagan Era” - Adrian Hänni (Zurich)
14:00 - 15:00 pm, Concluding Discussion
Chair: Martin Deuerlein & Roman Krawielicki
Concluding Statement - Bernd Schäfer (Washington)