Dr.
Stephan Kieninger
Affiliated Researcher
Stephan Kieninger is an affiliated researcher at the Austrian Institute for International Politics. He was a 2021/22 Woodrow Wilson Center fellow and is currently writing a book on Strobe Talbott, NATO enlargement and the Clinton Administration’s Russia diplomacy. Kieninger holds a Ph.D. in Modern History from Mannheim University and was previously a postdoc at Johns Hopkins SAIS, a fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, and a Senior Researcher at the Federal German Archives. His most recent book is The Diplomacy of Detente. Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (Routledge, 2018). He is also the author of Dynamic Detente. The United States and Europe 1964–1975 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) and has received fellowships from the German Historical Institute, the Hoover Institution and the German Academic Exchange Service.
Vita
- 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
Publikationen
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