Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates

Participants and Contributors

Participants and Contributors Conference Participants James A. Baker III was Secretary of State from January 1989 to August 1992. He previously served as Secretary of the Treasury and Chief of Staff in the White House of President Ronald Reagan, and he led the presidential campaigns of Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush. He is the author, with Thomas M. DeFrank, of The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War, and Peace, 1989–1992 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995), and is the Honorary Chair of the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. Jack F. Matlock Jr. was Director of Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council staff in 1983–87 and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1987–91. He was previously U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. He is the author of Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador’s Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (New York: Random House, 1996). He is currently George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. Lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft (USAF, Retired) was the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs to Presidents Ford and Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to Presidents Ford and Nixon. He is founder and president of The Forum for International Policy. He and former president George H. W. Bush are the authors of A World Transformed (New York: Knopf, 1998). Philip Zelikow was a member of the Directorate for European and Soviet Affairs of the National Security Council during the period considered by the conference with responsibilities for matters bearing on European security and German unification. He was an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and is currently the Director of the Miller Center for Public Policy at the University of Virginia. He is coauthor with Condoleezza Rice of Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995). Wolhforth Contributors 12/27/02 12:42 AM Page 337 Robert B. Zoellick served as Counselor of the Department of State under Secretary of State Baker during the first Bush administration. He had earlier served in the Department of the Treasury in a variety of positions in 1985 and 1986. He is currently the United States Trade Representative. Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union in 1986–90, Soviet Ambassador to the United States in 1990, and Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union in 1991. Previously he served in the Soviet Embassy in Washington and was in charge of American Affairs at the Soviet Foreign Ministry. He is currently President of the Foreign Policy Association, Moscow. Anatoly S. Chernyaev was personal adviser on foreign affairs to President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986–91. Previously he was a senior official of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He is currently associated with the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (the Gorbachev Institute), Moscow. He is the author of My Six Years with Gorbachev, ed. and trans. Robert D. English and Elizabeth Tucker (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). Pavel Palazchenko was special assistant and interpreter to President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985–91. Previously he was an official of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. He is currently associated with the International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (the Gorbachev Institute), Moscow. He is the author of My Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997). Sergei Tarasenko was a career diplomat in the Foreign Ministry of the USSR. He served as principal policy assistant to Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in 1985–91. He is currently with the Institute for Realism in Politics in Moscow. Don Oberdorfer was diplomatic correspondent for the Washington Post. He covered the events that led to the end of the Cold War and interviewed or reinterviewed many of the participants for his book The Turn: From the Cold 3 3 8 PA R T I C I PA N T S A N D C O N T R I B U T O R S Wolhforth Contributors 12/27/02 12:42 AM Page 338 War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983–1990 (New York: Poseidon Press, 1991). He is presently a resident scholar at the Paul H. Nitze School for...