Ronald J. Granieri is an Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Army War College and a host of A Better Peace. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania as well as other universities in the United States and Germany, and is Templeton Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the Politics of German Westbindung, 1949-1966(2003), and is working on a book about German politics from the 1960s through unification as well as a history of the Atlantic Community.