2014

USA-Redakteursprogramm 2014

USA-SONDERPROGRAMM ZUM 25. JAHRESTAG DES FALLS DER BERLINER MAUER
10./11. November 2014

RIAS-Fellows und Kommissionmitglied Dr. Hildegard Boucsein nahmen an der Konferenz “25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Liberation of Eastern Europe” in der George Bush Library, College Station, TX, teil, die von der Bush School of Government and Public Service of the Texas A&M University organisiert wurde. Ehrengäste: Elmar Brok, Vorsitzender des Kommitees für Auslandsangelegenheiten des Europäischen Parlaments; Horst Teltschik, ehem. Kanzleramtsdirektor und enger Berater von Kanzler Helmut Kohl; James Baker, ehem. U.S. Secretary of State; Brent Scowcroft, ehem. Nationaler Sicherheitsberater der USA.

Dr.Hildegard Boucsein, Mitglied der RIAS BERLIN KOMMISSION mit RIAS-Fellows Jan Philipp Burgard (WDR) und Andreas Weise (ZDF) sowie John Schmitz, ehem. Sicherheitsberater des Weißen Hauses

 

 

RIAS-Fellows moderieren die Podiumsdiskussion

 

 

 

Manfred Rettig, CEO der Humboldt Foundation, überreicht an Präsident George H.W. Bush einen historischen Eckstein des zum Wiederaufbau vorgesehenen Berliner Stadtschlosses

 

 

RIAS-Fellows Jan Philipp Burgard und Andreas Weise vor der George H.W. Bush Presidential Library an der Texas A&M University

 

 


PROGRAMM

Twenty-five years ago, the world witnessed one of the most historical events of our time: the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. This event led to the great power shift that would bring about the col’lapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of democracy in Eastern Europe. Now, a quarter of a decade later, we revisit this momentous period with some of the people inside the decision making process and scholars that have devoted their studies to the exploration and understanding of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of Eastern Europe

09:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks

09:15 Opening Plenary Talk

Elmar Brok, Member European Parliament, Current Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee

09:45 European Practitioner Panel

Elmar Brok, Member European Parl iament, Current Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Dr. Sebastian Huluban, Former Romanian Secretary of Defense and Security Policy
Dr. Horst Teltschik, Former Security Advisor to Chancellor Kohl

10:30 Pause

10:45 European Practitioner Panel Facilitated Roundtable Discussion with Q&A

Andreas Weise, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)
Jan Philip Burgard, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)

11:30 Lunch with Speaker

Ambassador Ryan Crocker, Dean, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University (Interviewer)
Secretary James Baker, former U.S. Secretary of State
General (R) Brent Scowcroft, former U.S. National Security Advisor

12:45 U.S. Practitioner Panel

Ambassador Robert Hutchings, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
(former Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council staff from 1989–1992)
Ambassador Larry Napper, Ambassador in Residence, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
(former Charge d’affaires and later Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania from 1989–1991)
Dr. Heather Wilson, President, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
(former Director for European Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Staff)

13:45 Pause

14:00 U.S. Practitioner Panel Facilitated Roundtable Discussion with Q&A

Andreas Weise, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)
Jan Philip Burgard, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)

15:00 Pause

15:15 Scholar Panel

Dr. Frederic Bozo, Professor at the Sorbonne Nouvelle (University of Paris III)
Dr. Christopher Layne, University Distinguished Professor, Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security,
Professor of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Dr. Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Affairs,
Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Dr. Gabriela Marin Thornton, Instructional Associate Professor of International Affairs,
Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
Dr. James Graham Wilson, Historian, U.S. Department of State

16:30 Scholar Panel Facilitated Roundtable Discussion with Q&A

Andreas Weise, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)
Jan Philip Burgard, RIAS Berlin Fellow (Facilitator)

17:30 Pause

18:00 Schuman Medal Presentation to President George H.W. Bush

18:15 Keynote

Dr. Jeffrey A. Engel, Director, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University

19:00 Empfang