Faculty : LSE

Dr. Ashton's main fields of interest are contemporary Anglo-American relations and the modern history of the Middle East....

Dr. Best's main fields of research interests lie in the Origins of the Pacific War; the International History of East Asia; the History of Modern Japan, and Intelligence and International History....

Dr. Casey's main fields of research interests lie in US foreign policy since 1933, looking specifically at the interaction between domestic public opinion and foreign-policymaking....

Dr. Tanya Harmer is a specialist on the Cold War in Latin America with a particular interest in the inter-American dynamics of the struggle and its links to broader developments in the Third World....

Professor Hartley is the Pro Director of Teaching and Learning, and has been seconded to the Directorate for 2007-12....

Dr Hochstrasser's research focuses on the two-way relationshipbetween intellectual life and political action in the history of earlymodern Europe, and above all on the use made of contemporary historicaland philosophical writing to legitimate and defend changing concepts ofsovereignty and political structure....

Dr Heather Jones is a specialist in First World War Studies with a particular interest in the evolution of wartime violence and the cultural impact of the conflict in Britain, France, Germany and Italy. Her other main research areas are: the history of prisoner of war treatment in twentieth century Europe; Weimar Germany; Irish politics, conflict and culture, 1913-1923.

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Dr Keenan's research deals with Russia during the eighteenth century and, in particular, the role of St Petersburg in the relationship between Russia and other contemporary European states....

Professor MacGregor Knox holds the Stevenson Chair in International History at LSE. His main fields of research interest are European international and strategic history, 1890-1945, especially the foreign and military policies of Italy and Germany; comparative history; strategic theory; and dictatorships.

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Dr Lewis's main fields of interests are Africa and Asia in the Imperial Age from 1800; Colonialism and Development in Eastern and Central Africa; from Empire to Commonwealth, 1815-1994 and Empire and Nation - politics and government in Britain, 1900 to the present.

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Dr Ludlow's main fields of research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, and in particular in the historical roots of the European integration process and the early stages of development of the EU. He is also interested in the history of the cold war in Europe and is an editor of Cold War History.

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Professor Prazmowska's main fields of researchinterests lie in the Cold War; communism; contemporary history; EasternEurope; fascism; and Poland....

Professor Preston's main fields of interests are Anglo-Spanish relations; contemporary Spanish politics; defence policy; European fascism; European left; Gibraltar; Spain; Spanish army; Spanish history, the Spanish Civil War, the Franco Regime, the transition to democracy in Spain. At LSE, he teaches courses within these topics and...

Dr Svetozar Rajak holdsdegrees in economics and in history. He received his PhD in historyfrom LSE.

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Professor Rodríguez-Salgado's main fields of interest lie in sixteenth century history, with particular interest in international relations, including Anglo-Spanish relations and the foreign policy of Philip II, Charles V and Elizabeth Tudor. She has also researched and published on the history of the court and the history of patriotism and...

Dr Rubiés' main fields of interest lie in Early Modern Europeanintellectual and cultural history, and the comparative study ofearly-modern empires. He has written extensively about travel writingand cultural encounters in the Early Modern period, and about theimpact of Renaissance ethnography in the intellectual culture of earlymodern Europe....

Dr Schulze's main fields of research cover Indonesian Politics & Security; Regional Conflicts in Indonesia; the Aceh Conflict; the Free Aceh Movement (GAM); Security Sector Reform; Islamic Groups; Israeli Politics; Israeli Security; the Middle East Peace Process; the...

Dr. Sivasundaram’s research focuses on the history of the British empire. He has written on two separate regions of imperial activity – the Pacific Ocean and South Asia.

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Dr Alan Sked's main fields of interest are very wide-ranging. He isa world expert on the Habsburg Monarchy, with his books on ittranslated into German, Italian, Czech, and Japanese....

Dr Spohr Readman's main research interests lie in the InternationalHistory of Germany since 1945, twentieth century Baltic and Finnishhistory in the international context; post-Cold War securitydevelopments (esp. NATO).

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Professor Stevenson's main fields of interests lie in internationalrelations in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;origins, course, and impact of the First World War....

Professor Westad's main fields of interests are the international history of the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. At LSE, he teaches courses within these topics and supervises students for their dissertations and theses at all levels, from undergraduate to PhD.

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