ABOUT DEENA STRYKER

Deena Stryker is the only political observer to have foreseen the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.  Her insights were made possible by an unusual life and career.  Born in the United States, Baccalaureat in Paris, graduate work at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Deena Stryker has lived and worked in France, Italy, Cuba, Holland, the U.S. and Eastern Europe.

Writing in Paris, dreaming of the Mediterranean

With Jerome Robbins	With Rene Clement	Amre Moussa At a conference on the Mediterranean, 1986

She began her career as a multilingual journalist at France Presse in Rome, then published a day-by-day account of the shooting of the film "8 1/2", which was translated into several languages.*  In 1963, she did the first Western interview with Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs, for "Paris Match" just before the Kennedy assassination.

After a five-year stay in Poland and Hungary, where she did radio work, she taught Future Studies at the University of Massachusetts, and during the Carter administration was a speech writer for the Assistant Secretary of State for Cultural Affairs, Joe Duffy.  Her first article on U.S.-Soviet relations was published in the State Department's in-house journal.

Others were published after her return to France in Le Monde, Latitudes and Geopolitique.  While a free-lance translator specializing in political and developmental issues, she published  "Une autre Europe, un autre Monde"**, where she applied a systems approach to the Cold War, situating Europe in relation to the United States and the Soviet Union.

 


Subsequently, her interest in systemic thinking led her to consider how the links between modern science and ancient intuitions might affect the ecological and spiritual crisis of the post-Cold War world.  In "The Case for Sacredness", she pleads for a cultural transformation and a new paradigm that could help solve our end-of-millenium crisis.

Budapest

Paris

Rome