Stephan Kieninger
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Stephan Kieninger is a historian and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Recent Publications
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The Helmut Kohl Transcripts: A New Resource for Post-Cold War History
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The Strobe Talbott Papers at the State Department’s Virtual Reading Room
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Behind the Scenes of US Nuclear Diplomacy With India, in: The Diplomat, October 12, 2024
New sources shed light on the United States’ diplomatic efforts after India’s nuclear tests in 1998.
BIO
Stephan Kieninger is a historian and a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of three books, Securing Peace in Europe. Strobe Talbott, NATO and Russia after the Cold War (Columbia University Press, September 2025 forthcoming), The Diplomacy of Détente. Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (Routledge, 2018), and Dynamic Détente. The United States and Europe, 1964-1975 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Following his PhD at Mannheim University in 2011, Kieninger worked as a senior research associate at the Federal German Archives. Kieninger was a fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Library and Archives, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Internatoinal Center for Scholars.