Klaus Larres

Klaus W. Larres (* 1958 in Schleiden ) is a German historian and political scientist . He teaches as Professor of History and International Relations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

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Klaus Larres studied at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Larres received grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the British Council and the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), which enabled him to do research in Great Britain. In September / October 1990 he received a grant from the Central Research Fund at the University of London for a research stay in the USA. In 1992 he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne with the thesis Politics of Illusions. Churchill, Eisenhower and the German Question 1945–1955 . The work was supervised at the LSE by Donald Cameroon Watt and in Cologne by Erich Angermann .

Larres was Professor of International Relations at the University of London , Jean Monnet Professor at Queen's University Belfast and Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. From 2002 to 2003 he held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington. In late 2011, he accepted a call to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Chair in History and International Relations. Larres remains a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University . Larres was also a Fellow and Visiting Professor at Yale University , Oxford University , Innsbruck University , George Washington University , Jyväskylä University , the German Historical Institute in Washington and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies .

Larres is an expert on transatlantic relations and on American, German and British foreign policy in the Cold War and the following years from a comparative perspective. His work focuses on the effects of US-led globalization on political, economic and cultural transformation in Europe and elsewhere, as well as on geopolitical developments in the post-Cold War era. He also works on the history, politics and economics of European integration and the international history of the Cold War.

Fonts (selection)

• A companion to Europe since 1945 . Oxford 2009, ISBN 1-405-10612-3 .
• together with Kenneth Osgood: The Cold War after Stalin's death. A missed opportunity for peace? Lanham 2006, ISBN 0-7425-5451-1 .
• Germany since unification. The domestic and external consequences . Basingstoke et al. a. 1998, ISBN 0-333-64981-8 .
• The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949. Politics, society and eoconomy before and after unification . London u. a. 1996, ISBN 0-582-23890-0 .
• Politics of illusions. Churchill, Eisenhower and the German Question 1945–1955 . Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-36320-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Larres in the catalog of the German National Library
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