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Guido Goldman, who forged closer ties between Germany and U.S., dies at 83 Harrison Smith, The Washington Post Dec. 10, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The cause was prostate cancer, said his friend Karl Kaiser, a longtime colleague at Harvard University. Modest and convivial, with a self-deprecating wit, Goldman was a behind-the-scenes force in European-American relations for more than five decades, with a special focus on fostering connections between Germany and the United States after World War II. He helped build Harvard's Center for European Studies, founded the German Marshall Fund of the U...

He was a scholar, community builder and art collector who founded the German Marshall Fund, a Washington policy organization.

>> derek leebaert, author of "magic and mayhem," where did you get that title? >> because i approached the problem, the delusions of american foreign policy, with the perspective that it results from magical thinking and results in a lot of chaos. >> when did you start thinking about the need for this kind of a book? >> i've been in this field for a long time, really since a young academic in the mid 1970's in harvard. and a lot of the illusions have percolated over the decades, the way that american academics, political appointees, many of us keep winging it when we influence, try t...

have we done any right? >> of course we've done a lot right. we unambiguously won the cold war, albeit with a lot of fits and starts along the way. we created and shaped the post world war ii economic order. we have performed well in the gulf war in 1991, in the balkans later in the decade. but by and large, if one looks back over the last lifetime of foreign policymaking, it's been a pretty dismal record. i'd argue even that we have lost three, if not four wars in a row -- the korean war in that fight with china, vietnam to be sure, iraq, which is exceedingly difficult to define as ...