Stephan Kieninger is a Non-Resident Fellow at the American-German Institute and a former Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is the author of "Dynamic Détente. The United States and Europe 1964-1975" (Lanham 2016) and "The Diplomacy of Détente. Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz" (London 2018) and his newest book "Securing Peace in Europe: Strobe Talbott, NATO, and Russia After the Cold War" (Columbia University Press 2025).