Muriel Blaive Editor

Martin D. Brown, F.R.Hist.S., is a diplomatic historian at Richmond American University. Between 2018-19 he was Lead Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies, Tallinn University. His publications include Slovakia in History (2011), and ‘Executors or creative deal-makers? The role of the diplomats in the making of the Helsinki CSCE’, with Dr Angela Romano (2019).

Ronald J. Granieri is Professor of History at the United States Army War College and Director of the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. His publications include The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (2003).

Muriel Blaive is a historian of Czech communism and post-communism, currently Elise Richter Fellow at Graz University. She edited a special issue of East Central Europe on "Surveillance of Culture, Culture of Surveillance" (October 2022), and of East European Politics and Societies on "Writing on Communist History" (August 2022.)