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• Wilson Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2021-2022
• Digital Fellow, European Union Non-Proliferation Consortium, 2021
• Consultant, History and Public Policy Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2020-2021
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, 2018-2019
• Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, 2018
• Research Fellow, Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, 2016-2017
• Senior Researcher, Federal German Archives, Historian’s Office, 2013-2016
• Adjuct Lecturer, International Office, Mannheim University, 2011-2013
• PhD in Modern History, Mannheim University, 2011

MONOGRAPHS

• Dynamic Détente. The United States and Europe, 1964-1975, Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, 2016
• The Diplomacy of Détente. Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz, Routledge Cold War History Series, London, 2018

DOCUMENT EDITIONS

• Oliver Bange, Stephan Kieninger, “Negotiating One’s Own Demise? The GDR’s Foreign Ministry and the CSCE Negotiations. Plans, Preparations, Tactics and Presumptions.” Cold War International History Project, E-Dossier No. 17, Washington D.C. 2008
• Co-Editor, Dokumente zur Deutschlandpolitik, Series VII, Vol 1, 1982-1984, edited by the Federal German Archives, De Gruyter Publishers, Munich 2018

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

• „Niemand will einen Rückfall in den Kalten Krieg“, Franz Josef Strauß, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski und der Milliardenkredit für die DDR 1983“, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 65. Jahrgang 2017, Heft 4, pp. 352-371
• A Preponderance of Stability. Henry Kissinger’s Concern over the Dynamics of Ostpolitik, in: Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Vol. 17, No. 42 (2019), pp. 42-60 – Special Issue 50th Anniversary of Henry Kissinger becoming National Security Adviser to President Nixon
• Diplomacy beyond Deterrence. Helmut Schmidt and the Economic Dimension of Ostpolitik, in: Cold War History Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 179-196
• The 1999 Kosovo War and the Crisis in U.S.-Russia Relations, in: International History Review, 43:4 (2020), 781-795, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07075332.2020.1848899
• The Bush and Clinton Administrations and Ukraine’s Nuclear Dismantlement, 1991–1994, accepted for Publication and Diplomacy & Statecraft
• Enlarging NATO and Engaging Russia. Strobe Talbott, the Clinton Administration and the Post-Cold War Order in Europe, submitted for publication in the Journal of Cold War Studies

ESSAYS IN PEER-REVIEWED VOLUMES

• “Transformation or Status quo. The Conflict of Stratagems in Washington over the Meaning and Purpose of the CSCE and MBFR, 1969-1973,” in: Oliver Bange/Gottfried Niedhart (Eds) Helsinki 1975 and the Transformation of Europe, New York/Oxford: Berghahn, 2008, pp. 67–82.
• “Transformation versus Status quo. The Survival of the Transformation Strategy during the Nixon Years,” in: Poul Villaume/Odd-Arne Westad (Eds) Perforating the Iron Curtain. European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War 1965–1985, Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2010, pp. 101-122
• “Den Status Quo aufrechterhalten oder ihn langfristig überwinden? Der Wettkampf westlicher Entspannungsstrategien in den 1970er Jahren,” in Oliver Bange/Bernd Lemke (Eds) Wege zur Wiedervereinigung. Die beiden deutschen Staaten in ihren Bündnissen, 1970-1990, München, Oldenbourg Verlag 2013, pp. 67-85
• “Joining the Bandwagon without a Learning Process. Henry Kissinger and NATO’s Transformation Policy in the CSCE Negotiations, 1973-1975,” in: Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager, Ann-Marie Ekengren (Eds), Northern Europe in the Cold War, 1965-1991. East-West Interactions in Trade, Culture, and Security, Aleksanteri Institute Press, Helsinki 2016, pp. 189-214
• “Between Power Politics and Morality. The United States, the Long Détente, and the Transformation of Europe, 1969-1985,” in: Oliver Bange, Poul Villaume (Eds), The Long Détente. Changing Concepts of Security and Cooperation in Europe, 1950s-1980s, Central European University Press, Budapest 2017, pp. 281-313
• “Freer Movement in Return for Cash. Franz Josef Strauss, Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski and the Milliardenkredit for the GDR, 1983-1984,” in: Jussi Hanhimäki, Barbara Zanchetta, Bernhard Blumenau (Eds) The Great Transformation? Reassessing the Causes and the Consequences of the End of the Cold War, Routledge, London 2018, pp. 117-137
• “Human Rights, Peace and Security are inseparable. Max Kampelman and the Helsinki Process,” in: Sarah Snyder, Nicolas Badalassi (Eds) The CSCE and the End of the Cold War. Diplomacy, Societies and Human Rights, 1972-1990, Berghahn Books, New York 2018, pp. 97-116
• “Opening NATO and Engaging Russia. NATO’s Two Tracks and the Establishment of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council in 1991,” in: Daniel Hamilton and Kristina Spohr (Eds) Open Door. NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security after the Cold War, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC 2019, pp. 57-69, https://transatlanticrelations.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/02-Kieninger.pdf
• “Money for Moscow. The West and the Question of Financial Assistance for Mikhail Gorbachev,” in: Daniel Hamilton and Kristina Spohr (Eds) Exiting the Cold War. Entering a New World, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, September 2019, pp. 281-296, https://transatlanticrelations.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/11-Kieninger.pdf

WORKING PAPERS AND BLOG CONTRIBUTIONS

• “Diverting the Arms Race into the Permitted Channels. The Nixon Administration, the MIRV-Mistake, and the SALT Negotiations,” Nuclear Proliferation International History Working Paper No. 8, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC 2016, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/diverting-the-arms-race-the-permitted-channels
• “Research by Stephan Kieninger Explores The Reagan Administration’s Diplomacy,” Blog Post, Hoover Institution, 17 January 2017, https://www.hoover.org/news/research-stephan-kieninger-explores-reagan-administrations-diplomacy
• “The Secret Side of Ostpolitik. Helmut Schmidt, Egon Bahr, and the Soviet Backchannel,” Blog Post, Woodrow Wilson Center, 3 April 2017, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/alexander-schalck-golodkowski-east-germanys-back-channel-negotiator-and-hard-currency
• “Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski. East Germany’s Backchannel Negotiator and Hard Currency Fundraiser,” Blog Post, Woodrow Wilson Center, 16 July 2018, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/alexander-schalck-golodkowski-east-germanys-back-channel-negotiator-and-hard-currency
• “At the very heart of Europe: New Evidence on John Major’s Foreign Policy,” Woodrow Wilson Center, 1 March 2019, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/the-very-heart-europe-new-evidence-john-majors-foreign-policy
• “Fifty Years since Ostpolitik. How Willy Brandt’s Diplomacy Transformed Europe,” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 21 October 2019, https://www.aicgs.org/2019/10/fifty-years-since-ostpolitik-how-willy-brandts-diplomacy-transformed-europe/
• “It’s Been 32 Years since the Conclusion of the INF Treaty Yet Arms Control Is Still Vital,” History News Network, 10 November 2019, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173549
• “NATO’s First Post-Wall Summit 30 Years Later,” History News Network, 8 December 2019, https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173793
• “Bill Clinton and Helmut Kohl. New Evidence from the Clinton Presidential Library,” History News Network, 16 February 2020, http://hnn.us/article/174323
• “New Sources on NATO Enlargement from the Clinton Presidential Library,” 18 February 2020, Woodrow Wilson Center, https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/new-sources-nato-enlargement-clinton-presidential-library
•  “He could get squishy on democracy.” Bill Clinton’s Perception of Vladimir Putin, History News Network, March 2020, http://hnn.us/article/174442
• Promoting Integration and Avoiding Isolation. A Brief History of Germany’s Participation in NATO’s Nuclear Statecraft, AICGS, March 2020, https://www.aicgs.org/2020/05/promoting-integration-and-avoiding-isolation-a-brief-history-of-germanys-participation-in-natos-nuclear-statecraft/
• Helmut Kohl and NATO Enlargement: The Search for the Post-Cold War Order, AICGS, July 7, 2020, https://www.aicgs.org/2020/07/helmut-kohl-and-nato-enlargement-the-search-for-the-post-cold-war-order/
• George Shultz and the Road to the INF Treaty. Process and Personal Diplomacy, Hoover Institution Working Paper on the occasion of George Shultz’s 100th birthday, December 13, 2020 forthcoming
• H-Diplo Essay 413- Commentary Series on Putin’s War: “The World as It Is. Germany’s New Foreign Policy and Russia’s War in Ukraine,” 3 March 2022, https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E413.pdf

REVIEWS

• Sehepunkte 15/7-8 (2015), Yuliya von Saal. KSZE-Prozess und Perestroika in der Sowjetunion. Demokratisierung, Werteumbruch und Auflösung 1985-1991 (Munich: Oldenbourg Verlag, 2014), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/07/24890.html
• Sehepunkte 11/2 (2011), Angela Romano. From Détente in Europe to European Détente. How the West Shaped the Helsinki CSCE (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2011/12/20108.html
• H-Diplo Article Review 704 on Simon Miles, “Envisioning Détente. The Johnson Administration and the October 1964 Khrushchev Ouster,” in Diplomatic History 40:4 (September 2016), pp. 722-749, 20 July 2017, http://tiny.cc/AR704
• H-Diplo Article Review 782 on Tyler Esno, “Reagan’s Economic War on the Soviet Union,” in: Diplomatic History 42:2 (April 2018), pp. 281-304, 12 July 2018 http://tiny.cc/AR782
• H-Diplo Article Review on Ken Nannichi, “A Trivial and Unimportant Ally? Britain and the West German-Soviet Treaty Negotiations, 1970,” in: Diplomacy & Statecraft 30:3 (August 2019): 490–514 (November 2019)
• On the history of the SALT negotiations: Sehepunkte 19:11 (2019): Matthew Ambrose. The Control Agenda. A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017); David Tal, US Strategic Arms Policy in the Cold War. Negotiations and Confrontations over SALT, 1969-1979 (London: Routledge Cold War History Series, 2017), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2019/11/32758.html
• H-Diplo Review Essay 276: Paschalis Pechlivanis, America and Romania in the Cold War. A Differentiated Détente, 1969-80 (London: Routledge, 2019), 7 October 2020, https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E276.pdf
• H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-10: Hope M. Harrison, After the Berlin Wall. Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 26 October 2020, https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXII-10.pdf
• H-Net Review: Mathias Haeussler, Helmut Schmidt and British-German Relations. A European Misunderstanding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), November 2020, https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/6833415/kieninger-haeussler-helmut-schmidt-and-british-german-relations