1989: A 2019 Retrospect on Its Causes and Legacies

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

Scholars continue to debate the causes and impact of the 1989 mostly peaceful end to one-party regimes in the Warsaw Pact countries. Here we will gather practitioners and scholars to discuss a 30-year retrospective.

Sub Unit

• International Relations/Security Studies/Foreign Policy

Chair

• Fredo Arias-King, Casla Institute (Czech Republic)

Roundtable Members

• Mark Nathan Kramer, Harvard U

• Robert W. Orttung, George Washington U

• Svetlana Vitalievna Savranskaya, National Security Archive

• Lech Walesa, Lech Walesa Institute Foundation