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Mary Elise Sarotte (born 1968) is an American historian of the post–Cold War era.^[1] She was the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, which is part of Johns Hopkins University.^[2] She is now the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and Professor of Global Affairs and Management at Yale University.^[3]

Sarotte earned an AB in history and science from Harvard University, and a PhD in history at Yale University.^[2] Her book Not One Inch was shortlisted for the 2022 Cundill History Prize.^[4]

• 1989: The Struggle to Create Post–Cold War Europe (Second Edition). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.^[5][6]
• Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall. New York: Basic Books, 2014.^[7]
• 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.

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