Mary Elise Sarotte is the director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, with a tenured joint appointment at the Yale School of Management. She is an expert in the history of international relations.

Professor Sarotte has held tenured faculty appointments at the University of Cambridge, the University of Southern California, and, most recently, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies or SAIS, where she was the inaugural holder of the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professorship of Historical Studies.

Education

PhD, Yale University, 1998

M.Phil, Yale University, 1994

MA, Yale University, 1990

BA, Harvard University, 1988

Books

Nicht einen Schritt weiter nach Osten 

M. E. Sarotte

Ludwig Beck in Munich

2023

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate 

M. E. Sarotte

Yale University Press

2021

German Reunification: A Multinational History 

F. Bozo, A. Rödder, and M. E. Sarotte

Routledge

2017

The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall 

M. E. Sarotte

Basic Books

2014

1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe 

M. E. Sarotte

Princeton University Press

2009

Dealing with the Devil: East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973 

M. E. Sarotte

The University of North Carolina Press

2003

German Military Reform and European Security 

M. E. Sarotte

Routledge

2001