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...derision of Western sophisticates, intellectuals and defeatists of all kinds. It also won him the undying admiration of liberation heroes from Vaclav Havel to Natan Sharansky. Rarely does history render such decisive verdicts: Reagan was right, his critics were wrong. Less than a year after he left office, the Berlin Wall came down...
Four years after graduating from HLS, Mundheim briefly joined a law firm before taking a stint with the Air Force in Berlin, serving on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), playing a lead role in negotiating the release of the U.S. hostages in Iran, two decades in various academic institutions and a position on the team that rebuilt Salomon Brothers...
Following his travels, Mundheim began what he expected to be a long career at the law firm Shearman & Sterling. But after just several months at the firm, he was called into service in Berlin with his Air Force National Gaurd Unit following the construction of the Berlin Wall...
Mundheim has also served since 2000 as president of the American Academy in Berlin, which invites distinguished academics and practitioners in the humanities and public policy to spend a semester there giving lectures. Mundheim describes the organization as an attempt to “keep the German-American dialogue alive and present American ideas and values for people...
...bruising it suffered in Vietnam, and saw reversing that psychology of caution over the use of force as an important goal if the confrontation with communism was to be pursued. He bombed Libya in 1986 after determining that it had authored a terror attack on U.S. servicemen in Berlin, and sent U.S. troops to invade the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada and topple its leftist government as a warning to others in the region to avoid drawing too close to the Soviets and Cuba. There were setbacks, of course - the 1983 bombing by Hezbollah of a Marine barracks in Beirut...