Klaus Larres
Professional affiliation
Wilson Center Projects
"Enlightened Self-Interest? The United States and the Unity of Europe from Nixon and Kissinger to Obama"
Full Biography
Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor in History & International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, he held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, was a Senior Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China; taught at Yale, Johns Hopkins/SAIS, the University of London and Queen’s University Belfast; and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Among his publications is Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy.
Major Publications
Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (Yale 2002).
Uneasy Allies: British-German relations and European integration (OUP 2000).
The Blackwell Companion to Europe since 1945 (2009).
The US Secretaries of State and Transatlantic Relations (Routledge, 2010).