M. E. Sarotte
Sarotte in 2010
Born	1968 (age 56–57)
Education	Harvard University (AB) Yale University (PhD)
Occupation	Historian
Notable work	Not One Inch

Mary Elise Sarotte (born 1968) is an American historian of thepost–Cold War era.^[1] She is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, which is part ofJohns Hopkins University.^[2]

Sarotte earned an AB in history and science fromHarvard University, and a PhD in history atYale University.^[2] Her bookNot One Inch was shortlisted for the 2022Cundill History Prize.^[3]

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External videos
Presentation by Sarotte onThe Collapse, November 24, 2014,C-SPAN
Presentation by Sarotte onNot One Inch, February 4, 2022,C-SPAN
Q&A interview with Sarotte onNot One Inch, April 17, 2022,C-SPAN

• Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973. University of North Carolina Press. 2001.
• "'Take No Risks (Chinese)': The Basic Treaty in the context of international relations".Bulletin of the German Historical Institute. Supplement 1:109–117. 2004.
• 1989: The Struggle to Create Post–Cold War Europe (Second Edition). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.^[4][5]
• Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. New York: Basic Books, 2014.^[6]
• German Reunification: A Multinational History, eds. Frédéric Bozo, Andreas Rödder, and Mary Elise Sarotte (New York: Routledge, 2017).
• Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post–Cold War Stalemate. Yale University Press, 2021.

• Biography at the Center for European Studies Harvard
• Youtube- Politics&Prose
• Appearances onC-SPAN

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