Turning Points In Ending The Cold War

The expert contributors examine the end of detente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.

Kiron K. Skinner is the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. She is also an associate professor of international relations and politics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she is director of the Center for International Relations and Politics. Skinner is widely known in academic circles for her expertise in the areas of international relations, US foreign policy, and political strategy. In 2010, Skinner was appointed to the advisory board of the George W. Bush Oral History Project. She coauthored Reagan, in His Own Hand (2001), Reagan, a Life in Letters (2003), and Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (2007) and is the editor of Turning Points in Ending the Cold War (2008). Her opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, and CNN.com.