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Initiation of the Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Chair and the DAAD/SAIS Post-Doctoral Program Join us on the Day of German Unity to kick-off a brand new, multi-year program featuring the new Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Professor and a new Post-Doctoral program in the field of international relations and history. This inaugural event will begin with an introduction to the program by the President of DAAD, whose generous support began this initiative at SAIS, and an address on

For 70-odd years, the world has experienced a period of relative peace and stability achieved through global cooperation and the establishment of empowered international organizations such as the United Nations. However, these consensus-building bodies are not as “new” as conventional thinking might suggest. As far back as the 14th and 15th-century Spanish and Portuguese adventurism that gave birth to globalization, it became increasingly apparent that nations or empires were