Hope M. Harrison is an Associate Professor of history and international affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, and a Senior Fellow with the Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project and History and Public Policy Program. She is the author of "Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet–East German Relations, 1953-1961" (Princeton University Press, 2003) and the forthcoming "After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present" (Cambridge University Press, 2015).