Why 1989? The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War

Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Panelists
Michael R. Meyer
Director of Communications, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations; Author, The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Romesh Ratnesar
Deputy Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, Tear Down this Wall: A City, A President, and the Speech that Ended the Cold War
Archie Brown
Professor Emeritus of Politics and Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford University; Author, The Rise and Fall of Communism
Presider
Peter L.W. Osnos
Founder and Editor-at-Large, PublicAffairs

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