Wolfram Kaiser

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Wolfram Kaiser (born 1 May 1966) is a German historian and European Studies scholar working in England. Educated at the universities of Bonn, Oxford and Hamburg he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg in 1994. He was a lecturer and senior research fellow at the universities of Edinburgh, Vienna, Paris-IV, Cambridge and Saarbrücken and at the Cultural Studies Institute in Essen before joining the University of Portsmouth as Professor of European Studies in 2000. He is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. Kaiser is best-known for his numerous works on the history of the European Union and transnational dimensions of European and global history since the mid-nineteenth century. His books include Christian democracy and the origins of European Union (CUP 2007), Using Europe, abusing the Europeans. Britain and European integration, 1945-63 (Macmillan 1999). He has also published more than twenty full-length articles in leading history and political science journals and more than 50 chapters in books. He has co-edited, inter alia, The history of the European Union. Origins of a trans- and supranational polity 1950-72 (Routledge 2008, with Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen), Transnational European Union. Towards a common political space (Routledge 2005, with Peter Starie), Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic conflict in nineteenth-century Europe (CUP 2003, with Christopher Clark).

[edit] Publications

Books

  • Christian democracy and the origins of European Union, CUP, 2007.[1]
  • Using Europe, abusing the Europeans. Britain and European integration, 1945-63, Macmillan, 1999.[2]
  • Großbritannien und die Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1955-1961. Von Messina nach Canossa, Akademie Verlag, 1996.

Edited Books

  • The history of the European Union. Origins of a trans- and supranational polity 1950-72, Routledge, 2008 (with Brigitte Leucht and Morten Rasmussen).[3]
  • Netzwerke im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, Böhlau, 2008 (with Michael Gehler and Brigitte Leucht).[4]
  • Transnational European Union. Towards a common political space, Routledge, 2005 (with Peter Starie).[5]
  • Christian democracy in Europe since 1945, Routledge, 2004 (with Michael Gehler).[6]
  • Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-45, Routledge, 2004 (with Helmut Wohnout).[7]
  • Transnationale Parteienkooperation der europäischen Christdemokraten. Dokumente 1945-1965 / Coopération transnationale des partis démocrates-chrétiens en Europe. Documents 1945-1965, K.G. Saur, 2004 (with Michael Gehler).[8]
  • European Union enlargement. A comparative history, Routledge, 2004 (with Jürgen Elvert).[9]
  • Culture wars. Secular-Catholic conflicts in nineteenth-century Europe, CUP, 2003 (with Christopher Clark).[10]
  • Reforming the constitution. Debates in twentieth-century Britain, Frank Cass, 2000 (with Peter Catterall and Ulrike Walton-Jordan).[11]
  • British foreign policy, 1955-64. Contracting options, Macmillan, 2000 (with Gillian Staerck).[12]

[edit] External links

Centre for European and International Studies Research web page[13] University of Portsmouth (Retrieved May 2, 2008).