Ron Granieri
Professor of History
Department of National Security and Strategy
Associate Editor, War Room
BIO
Dr. Ronald J. Granieri is a Professor of History in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College, as well as a Templeton Education Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago and a former Federal Chancellor Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Dr. Granieri is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer, the CDU/CSU, and the West, 1949-1966 (Berghahn, 2003) as well as articles on German History, European-American Relations, the Cold War, and contemporary politics in journals such as Orbis, Central European History, Foreign Policy, and The International History Review and has also published op-ed essays in The Hill, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post.
contact
ronald.granieri@armywarcollege.edu
ronald.j.granieri.civ@army.mil
(717) 245-3255
651 Wright Ave, Room 3004
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013
Recent Publications
BOOK
The Bondian Cold War: The Transnational Legacy of a Cultural Icon (edited with Martin D. Brown and Muriel Blaive)
Routledge (2023)
MILITARY AND SOCIETY, ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES
COMMENTARY
“German voters have spoken. What did they say?”
Foreign Policy Research Institute, September 27, 2021
ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES
ACADEMIC BOOK CHAPTER
“It’s Only Easy in Retrospect: The American Road to INF, 1986–1987”
in The INF Treaty of 1987: A Reappraisal, ed. Phillip Glassert, Tim Geiger, and Herman Wentker (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), pp 55-70
STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY, ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES
ACADEMIC ARTICLE
“In Memory of the ‘Two Helmuts:’ The Lives, Legacies, and Historical Impact of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl— A Forum” (Co-author with Clayton Clemens, Mathias Haeussler, Andrew Port, Mary Elise Sarotte, Kristina Spohr, and Christian Wicke)
Central European History, 51 (2). pp. 282-309
EDUCATION
COMMENTARY
“Beyond Cap the Foil: Caspar Weinberger and the Reagan Era Defense Buildup,”
in Reagan and the World: Leadership and National Security Affairs during the Reagan Presidency, ed. Bradley Coleman and Kyle Longley (Louisville, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2017), 51-80.
ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES, STRATEGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY