Historian
Fields of Expertise
Biography
Dr. Lukas Schemper is a historian of international relations with a particular interest in international organizations, humanitarianism and responses to natural disaster. His doctoral thesis, which he recently defended at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, dealt with the history of attempts to govern natural disaster through international mechanisms from the time of the League of Nations to the end of the Cold War. He was amongst other things visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (2014), visiting scholar at the History Department of Columbia University (2015) and Plumer visiting fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Bibliography
Unpublished
Book project on the basis of the PhD thesis: Humanity Unprepared – International Organization and the Management of Natural Disaster 1921-1991 (493 pages)
The United States Congress and German Unification 1989/90 (MA diss., Sciences Po Paris, 2011) (will remain unpublished, 168 pages)
Peer-reviewed articles
“La prévention des catastrophes naturelles et les organisations internationales du temps de la sdn au lendemain de la guerre froide. Quelle place pour l’environnement?” Revue Études internationales XLVII, no. 1 (March 2016): 29–80.
“Diasporas and American Debates on German Unification.” Journal of Transatlantic Studies 15, no. 01 (December 2016): 18.
Articles in peer-reviewed edited volumes
“Der Hohe Flüchtlingskommissar der Vereinten Nationen, Österreich und die Repatriierung sowjetischer Flüchtlinge” in Österreich im Kalten Krieg Neue Forschungen im internationalen Kontext ed. Maximilian Graf, Agnes Meisinger (Wien: Vienna University Press: 2016)
“Transnational Expertise on Natural Disaster and International Organization: historical perspectives from the inter-war period” in Transnational Expertise ed. Christian Heinrich-Franke, Robert Kaiser, Christian Lahusen, Andrea Schneiker (Baden-Baden: Nomos: 2017) (accepted for publication)
Corporate history
WHO, 60 Years of Global Influenza Surveillance (Geneva: WHO, 2016) (collaboration finished, corporate history book in preparation, ca. 100 pages)
Book reviews
Crossland, J. (2014). Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939–1945’. Diplomacy & Statecraft 27, no. 1 (2 January 2016): 191–92.