*February 13, 2008 (4:00 - 5:30pm) 5th Floor Conference
RoomWoodrow Wilson Center

Visit www.cwihp.org for more information and to RSVP Paul Steege will discuss how and why Berlin became the symbolic capital of the Cold War. By focusing on what happened 'on the ground' in Berlin, the book shows how ordinary people mattered for the development of a global Cold War that dominated world affairs for four decades and offers an interpretive framework with which to reevaluate international conflict in the present. Paul Steege is the author of Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949, an associate professor of history at Villanova University, and co-editor of the online discussion board H-German. Hope M. Harrison, the director of GWU's Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, specializes in the international history of the Cold War, German foreign policy, the collapse of East Germany and German unification. She is the author of a book on the decision to build the Berlin Wall: Driving the Soviets up the Wall (2003).