Book Launch with Fritz Bartel:

The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

DATE: February 1st, 2023

TIME: 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Toronto time

DELIVERY METHOD: Online, via Zoom

DURATION: 2 hours

The peaceful end of the Cold War and the rise of economic neoliberalism are two of the most consequential developments in contemporary history. Yet the connections between the two have largely been ignored until now. In this pathbreaking book, historian (and U of T alumnus) Fritz Bartel explores the links, showing how the economic difficulties of the 1970s and '80s transformed the economic and geopolitical landscape.

About Fritz Bartel

Fritz Bartel is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. His book The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism was published with Harvard University Press in 2022. As a dissertation, it won the 2018 Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Along with Nuno P. Monteiro, he also co-edited Before and After the Fall: World Politics and the End of the Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has been published in Enterprise & Society and Diplomatic History, and his research has been funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Miller Center. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University, and a B.A. from the University of Toronto.