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Beware the Guns of August

Jorge Benitez | August 02, 2011
“What is it about August?”

From Gideon Rachman, the Financial Times:  When something really drastic happens in the month of August, European leaders are often caught on the hop.

The 24th anniversary of Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech in Berlin

Jorge Benitez | June 12, 2011
President Ronald Reagan delivering his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, June 12, 1987.

From Ronald Reagan, the Reagan Foundation:  We hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and openness.

Global Watercooler: Death in Pakistan

Frederick Kempe | March 03, 2011
Global Watercooler

Around the watercooler today: Extremism strikes again in Pakistan; Gates shoots down no fly zone; and Gorbachev cautions Putin.

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Afghanistan Exit: Follow The Gorbachev Plan

Arnaud de Borchgrave | November 16, 2009
Mikhail Gorbachev Photo June 2009

Did Mikhail Gorbachev launch glasnost and perestroika in the mid-1980s with the aim of bringing about genuine democratic change in the Soviet Union? That's what he says in two interviews on both sides of the Atlantic -- Euronews' Maria Pineiro and Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel -- to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

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Brent Scowcroft on the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Frederick Kempe | November 02, 2009
Berlin Wall Freedom

Atlantic Council president and CEO Frederick Kempe interviewed Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, and Chairman of the Atlantic Council International Advisory Board on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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