Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Fritz Stern Lecturer - Class of Spring 2022
Benn Steil is a senior fellow, Director of International Economics, and official historian-in-residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a scholarly economics journal; lead writer of the Council’s Geo-Graphics economics blog; and creator of five web-based interactives that track economic developments internationally, from China’s Belt and Road initiative to central bank currency swaps.
Steil is the author, most recently, of The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War (Simon & Schuster, 2018), chosen the New York Historical Society’s 2019 book of the year, and The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order (Princeton, 2013).
14
Apr
20
American Academy Lecture at ESMT
The Marshall Plan, the Cold War, and the Birth of the Liberal World Order
POSTPONED. This lecture was postponed.
19
Apr
22
Fritz Stern Lecture
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil discusses in how far the Marshall Plan marked the true beginning of the Cold War.
19
Apr
22
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
The Marshall Plan—the costly and ambitious initiative to revive Western Europe after World War II—marked the true beginning of the Cold War, argues Benn Steil. Using new Russian and American archival material, Steil shows that it was only after the launch of the 1947 plan “that both sides . . ...