Korea Strategic Outcomes: Implications for German-speaking and East-Central Europe (GS-ECE)

Korea Strategic Outcomes: Implications for German-speaking and East-Central Europe (GS-ECE)

SMA hosted a speaker session with Dr. David Dorondo (Western Carolina University) as part of its SMA INDOPACOM Speaker Series. 

Date: 26 June 2018

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SMA hosted a speaker session presented by Dr. David Dorondo (Western Carolina University) as a part of its SMA INDOPACOM Speaker Series. Dr. Dorondo provided a brief background of the countries included in German-speaking Europe and East-Central Europe (GS-ECE) for context. He then spoke about the rationale for US policymakers to pay attention to GS-ECE, as well as the gains Russia obtained from the US-DPRK summit and recent G-7 debacle. He identified Moscow’s “Trojan Horses,” which include leaders and parties from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and, to some extent, a few Western European nations. Dr. Dorondo concluded his session by addressing three key questions: 1) What kind of Europe is better for the US based on the last 200 years?, 2) What kind of Europe is worse for the US based on the last 200 years?, and 3) Is today different?

This speaker session supported SMA’s Korea Strategic Outcomes project. For additional speaker sessions and project publications, please visit the Korea Strategic Outcomes project page.

Speaker Session Recording

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Biography

Dr. David Dorondo earned the degree of B.A. cum laude in history from Armstrong State College in 1980 and the M.A. in German and European diplomatic history from the University of South Carolina in 1984. From 1984 to 1987, he was a member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford and was admitted to the degree of D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1988. While there, he earned a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship to attend the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in the Federal Republic of Germany for the academic year 1985-1986, having already spent the year 1981-1982 at the same institution as a graduate exchange student.

Dorondo is a member of US Strategic Command’s Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance and the Society for Military History. He sits on the Brewster Award Committee of the North Carolina Association of Historians. He joined the Department of History of Western Carolina University in 1987 and is the former holder of the Sossomon Chair in History. In 1996 he was awarded the Medal of Scholarship from Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences. Since 2000 he has served as Faculty Advisor to the Pi Psi Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society and received WCU’s College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award for the year 2000-2001, as well as the University’s Last Lecture Award for teaching in 2011-2012. He founded and moderated The Carolina Round Table on the World Wars and co-founded and co-moderates WCU’s Global Spotlight Series on International Affairs.

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