The Russia Watchers

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Rose Gottemoeller

Rose Gottemoeller

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Rose Gottemoeller is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  Prior to joining Stanford, she served as the deputy secretary general of NATO and spent nearly five years as the under secretary for arms control and international security at the US Department of State. Additionally, she was the chief US negotiator for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation.

“Rose is a foundational figure in US policy on Russia and nuclear weapons and in arms control more generally. No one has more direct experience with Russia and nuclear weapons than Rose Gottemoeller.”

Mark Kramer

Marc Kramer

Director of the Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Mark Kramer is the author and editor of several books and has written nearly 200 articles on a variety of topics. He has worked extensively in newly opened archives in all the former Warsaw Pact countries and several Western countries. He edits both the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series and the peer-reviewed Journal of Cold War Studies.

“For decades, Mark has been at the heart of some of the world’s most important research into Cold War history, and in particular, the role of the Soviet Union and Russia. He was at the center of the revolution in our understanding of Russia that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of Russia’s archives. He’s a scholar’s scholar on a topic of central importance to history and to the present.”