It is easy to take peace for granted. In this episode of the podcast I speak with John Kornblum about the hard work that diplomats do in the background to maintain peace between nations. John specializes in European and east-west relations, and played a defining role in many of the important events leading up to the end of the Cold War, and those that led to the current post-cold war security environment. These included the Quadripartite negotiations on Berlin, the Helsinki Final Act, the stationing of nuclear weapons in Europe, President Ronald Reagan's historic 1987 speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, German reunification, the Dayton Agreement on the Balkans, enlargement of NATO, the post-Cold War security settlement with Russia and Ukraine and the agreement on compensation of slave laborers and establishment of the Reconciliation Foundation of German Industry. John also served as US Special Envoy to the Balkans and directed two dramatic prisoner and spy exchanges on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin in 1985 and 1986.
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These conversations are supported by the Andrea von Braun foundation (www.avbstiftung.de/), as an exploration of the rich, exciting, connected, scientifically literate, and (most importantly) sustainable future of humanity. The views expressed in these episodes are my own and those of my guests. This episode covers the maintenance of international relations, the rule of international law, and world peace.
Menu:
0:00 - Introduction
1:05 - Fall of the berlin wall.
4:37 - Soviet and western relations.
15:38 - Controlling the population.
20:45 - What the public gets to hear.
25:30 - Russian propaganda.
31:40 - Preventing war?
39:20 - Flipping the global order.
46:00 - Why did Ukraine not enter NATO?
47:52 - Chinese aspirations.
52:55 - Was Merkel wrong to rely on russian energy?
57:15 - What do countries learn through conflict?
1:03:20 - Carrying a big stick.
1:07:07 - Dealing with reprehensible but powerful people.
1:10:12 - Gorbachev.
1:14:50 - What does the west gain from the war in Ukraine?
1:16:30 - Destroying the international rule of law (Helsinki act).
1:21:40 - History doesn't end.
1:27:10 - Can we survive as a species?
1:32:10 - Pride.
1:36:00 - It's a special time.
1:41:00 - Dreams of the future.
1:43:30 - Internal power struggles.
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