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Wolfram Kaiser

Biography

Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies, University of Portsmouth, and Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges. At Portsmouth he heads the Transnational Europe research cluster. He works on European integration and the European Union past and present, the role of international organizations and experts in governing cross-border issues in Europe since around 1850 (esp. in the steel and environmental sectors), and on the musealization of European integration. His recent books include (ed. with J.H. Meyer). Societal Actors in European Integration 1958-92: From Polity-Building to Policy-Making (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013); (with S. Krankenhagen and K. Poehls), Europa ausstellen. Das Museum als Praxisfeld der Europäisierung (Cologne-Vienna: Böhlau, 2012); (ed. with A. Varsori) European Union History. Themes and Debates (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010); (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Gehler), Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Governing Europe 1945-83 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2010); Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (Cambridge: CUP, 2007). He has also published widely in peer-reviewed history and social science journals including Journal of Modern History, Contemporary European History, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Public Policy.

Bibliography

BooksMaking Rules for Europe. International Organizations, Experts, Cartels (Making Europe 1850-2000, vol. 6), Palgrave, Basingstoke (with S. Schot; contract signed; MS to be submitted in 10/2013, publication in spring 2014)Exhibiting Europe in Museums. Networks, Collections, Narratives, Representations (revised and updated English translation of 5 below), Berghahn, New York – Oxford 2014 (April)Europa ausstellen. Das Museum als Praxisfeld der Europäisierung, Böhlau, Cologne – Vienna 2012 (with S. Krankenhagen and K. Poehls)Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007.Transnationale Parteienkooperation der europäischen Christdemokraten. Dokumente 1945-1965 / Coopération transnationale des partis démocrates-chrétiens en Europe. Documents 1945-1965, K.G. Saur, Munich 2004 (with M. Gehler) [Edition of 220 documents in German, French and English, from 15 archives in 6 countries, with a 50pp introduction and 16pp biographies of politicians involved in party cooperation]Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans. Britain and European Integration 1945-63, 2nd edition, Macmillan, London 1999 [1996].Großbritannien und die Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1955-1961. Von Messina nach Canossa (Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte, Vol. 2), Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1996.
Edited Books / Special Journal IssuesInternational Organizations and Environmental Protection in the Global Twentieth Century: Actors, Agenda-Setting and Institution-Building (ed. with J.H Meyer, MS in preparation, book proposal submitted to CUP).Societal Actors in European Integration. Polity-Building and Policy-Making 1958-92, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2013 (ed. with J.H. Meyer).Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s. Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation (special issue vol. 20, no. 3 of Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung), Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2010 (ed. with J.H. Meyer).Transnational Networks in Regional Integration: Governing Europe 1945-83, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2010 (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Gehler).European Union History. Themes and Debates, Palgrave, Basingstoke 2010 (ed. with A. Varsori).Networks in European Union Governance (special issue vol. 29, no. 2 of Journal of Public Policy, 131-239), CUP, Cambridge 2009.Netzwerke im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, Böhlau, Vienna – Cologne – Weimar 2009 (ed. with M. Gehler and B. Leucht).The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72, Routledge, London 2009 (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen).Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space, Routledge, London 2005 (ed. with P. Starie).European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History, Routledge, London 2004 (ed. with J. Elvert).Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945, Routledge, London 2004 (ed. with M. Gehler).Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945, Routledge, London 2004 (ed. with H. Wohnout).Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003 (ed. with C. Clark).Kulturkampf in Europa im 19. Jahrhundert (special issue vol. 12, no. 5/6 of Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung), Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2002.Christdemokratie in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert, Böhlau, Vienna – Cologne – Vienna 2001 (ed. with M. Gehler and H. Wohnout).Reforming the Constitution. Debates in Twentieth-Century Britain, Frank Cass, London 2000 (ed. with P. Catterall and U. Walton-Jordan).British Foreign Policy 1955-64. Contracting Options, Macmillan, London 2000 (ed. with G. Staerck).Political Reform in Britain, 1886-1996. Themes, Ideas, Policies, Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1997 (ed. with U. Jordan).