Paul Berman is a writer in residence at New York University. He contributes articles and commentary on politics and literature to The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, Dissent and other magazines. His work has been translated into 14 languages. His books include A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (W.W. Norton, 1996) Terror and Liberalism (Norton, 2003); and the edited anthology Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems (Library of America, 2006). In 2007, his book Power and the Idealists: Or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer and its Aftermath was issued in an American paperback edition (W.W. Norton) with a new preface by Richard Holbrooke. Power and the Idealists, translated into French under the title Cours Vite, Camarade, was selected by nonfiction.fr as one of the books of the year 2007.

Paul Hockenos is the author of Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1993), Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkans Wars (Cornell University Press, 2003) and Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany (OUP, 2008). From 1997-99 he worked with the international administration in Bosnia and in 2003-04 in Kosovo. Since then, Hockenos has been a visiting fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the European Journalism College at the Free University Berlin. He is presently editor of Internationale Politik-Global Edition.

Belinda Cooper (moderator) is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an adjunct professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, where she teaches about international law and human rights. She lived in Berlin from 1987-1994, and returned in 2002 as a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.