School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies

Profile

Wolfram Kaiser's main interests are in contemporary European history and politics, especially the process of European integration since 1945. He is particularly interested in the linked processes of supranational integration and transnational society formation. His most recent book Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (CUP 2007) addresses the role of transnational party elite networks in European integration in long-term historical perspective. Wolfram Kaiser also has broader interests in the processes of Europeanisation and globalisation in historical perspective and the history of international relations, esp. the political culture of internationalisation in the second half of the 19th century as a first phase of globalisation. He has authored and edited many books and articles for journals including Comparativ, Contemporary British History, Contemporary European History, Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Historical Journal, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of European Integration History, Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Modern History, and Revue d'histoire diplomatique.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Hamburg (1994) 
• Combined BA and MA, University of Hamburg (1991)

Research Clusters

• Policy, Politics, Justice & Security in Europe
• Social, Historical and Cultural Change in Europe

Discipline Areas

• Modern History
• International Relations
• Comparative Politics

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• Transnational European Union: Networks in Informal Governance 1945-83
• Political Culture of Internationalisation: World Exhibitions in the Nineteenth Century 
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher: a Biography

Authored Books

• 2007 Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (Cambridge: CUP), ISBN 978-0-521-88310-8, 384pp http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521883108
• 2004 Transnationale Parteienkooperation der europäischen Christdemokraten. Dokumente 1945-1965 / Coopération transnationale des partis démocrates-chrétiens en Europe 1945-1965 (Munich: K.G. Saur) (combined monograph and edition of documents, with M. Gehler), ISBN 3-598-11655-1, 728pp 
• 1999 Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans. Britain and European Integration 1945-63, 2nd edition (Basingstoke: Macmillan), ISBN 0-333-71470-9, xxxii + 274pp 
• 1996 Großbritannien und die Europäische Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft 1955-1961. Von Messina nach Canossa (Berlin: Akademie-Verlag), ISBN 3-05-002736-3, 233pp

Edited Books

• 2008 Netzwerke im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart / Networks in European Governance. From 1945 to the Present (ed. with M. Gehler and B. Leucht) (Vienna: Böhlau) - forthcoming      
• 2008 The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen) (London: Routledge) - forthcoming http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415463935&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DWolfram%2BKaiser 
• 2005 Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space (ed. with P. Starie) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-415-36512-0, 240pp http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415365123&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DWolfram%2BKaiser        
• 2004 European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History (ed. with J. Elvert) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-415-33137-4, 245pp http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415429658&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DWolfram%2BKaiser
• 2004 Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (ed. with M. Gehler) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-7146-5662-3, 260pp http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780714685670&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DWolfram%2BKaiser        
• 2004 Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945 (ed. with H. Wohnout) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-7146-8537-2, 304pp http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780714685373&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3DWolfram%2BKaiser        
• 2003 Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (ed. with C. Clark) (Cambridge: CUP), ISBN 0-521-80997-5, 376pp  http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521809979        
• 2002 Kulturkampf in Europa im 19. Jahrhundert (ed. with C. Clark) (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag / vol. 12, special issue 5/6 of Comparativ ), ISBN 3-936522-57-X, 253pp
• 2001 Christdemokratie in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert / Christian Democracy in 20th Century Europe / La Démocratie Chrétienne en Europe au XXe siècle (ed. with M. Gehler and H. Wohnout) (Vienna: Böhlau), ISBN 3-205-99360-8, 791pp 
• 2000 Reforming the Constitution. Debates in Twentieth-Century Britain (ed. with P. Catterall and U. Walton-Jordan) (London: Frank Cass), ISBN 0-7146-5056-0, 304pp 
• 2000 British Foreign Policy 1955-64. Contracting Options (ed. with G. Staerck) (Basingstoke: Palgrave), ISBN 0-312-22792-2, 296pp 
• 1997 Political Reform in Britain, 1886-1996. Themes, Ideas, Policies (ed. with U. Jordan) (Bochum: N. Brockmeyer), ISBN 3-8196-0515-0, 265pp

Journal Articles

• 2008 Informal Politics of Integration: Christian Democratic and Transatlantic Networks in the Creation of ECSC core Europe, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 14, no. 1 (with B. Leucht)
• 2008 History meets Politics: Overcoming the Interdisciplinary Volapük in Research on the EU, Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 15
• 2005 Transnational Mobilization and Cultural Representation: Political Transfer in an Age of Proto-Globalisation, Democratisation and Nationalism 1848-1914, European Review of History, vol. 12, no. 2, pp.403-424       
• 2005 Cultural Transfer of Free Trade at the World Exhibitions 1851-62, Journal of Modern History, vol.77, no.3, pp.563-590  
• 2004 Vom Staat zur Gesellschaft? Zur Historiographie der europäischen Integration, Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 55, no. 11, pp.663-679 
• 2002 "Überzeugter Katholik und CDU-Wähler": Zur Historiographie der Integrationsgeschichte am Beispiel Walter Lipgens, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 8, no. 2, pp.119-128 
• 2002 Kampf den Ultramontanen: Der Antiklerikalismus im Kulturkampf der zwei Europa im 19. Jahrhundert, Comparativ. Leipziger Beiträge zur Universalgeschichte und vergleichenden Gesellschaftsforschung, vol. 12, no. 5/6, pp.38-62
• 2001 Culturally Embedded and Path-Dependent: Peripheral Alternatives to ECSC/EEC "core Europe" since 1945, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 7, no. 2, pp.11-36 
• 2001 Transnationalism and early European integration: The NEI and the Geneva Circle 1947-57, The Historical Journal, vol. 44, no. 3, pp.773-798 (with M. Gehler) 
• 2000 Co-operation of European Catholic Politicians in Exile in Britain and the United States during World War II, Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 35, no. 3, pp.439-465 
• 2000 Die Welt im Dorf. Weltausstellungen von London 1851 bis Hannover 2000, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, vol. 22/23, pp.3-10 
• 2000 Zeitgeschichtliche Quelleneditionen: Methoden und Forschungspraxis anhand ausgewählter Beispiele, Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs, vol. 48, pp.127-145 (with M. Gehler) 
• 1999 Vive la France! Vive la République? The Cultural Construction of French Identity at the World Exhibitions in Paris 1855-1900, National Identities , vol. 1, no. 3, pp.227-244 
• 1998 L'option française dans la politique nucléaire et européenne de la Grande-Bretagne 1957-1963, Revue d'histoire diplomatique, vol. 112, no. 2, pp.173-204 
• 1998 The Political Reform Debate in Britain since 1945: the European Dimension, Contemporary British History, vol. 12, no. 1, pp.48-76 
• 1997 Challenge to the Community: The Creation, Crisis and Consolidation of the European Free Trade Association, 1958-72, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 3, no. 1, pp.7-33 
• 1997 A Study in Ambivalence: Austria and European Integration 1945-95, Contemporary European History, vol. 6, no. 1, pp.75-99 (with M. Gehler) 
• 1995 Die EU-Volksabstimmungen in Österreich, Finnland, Schweden und Norwegen: Folgen für die Europäische Union, Integration , vol. 18, no. 2, pp.76-87 (with P. Visuri, C. Malmström, A. Hjelseth)           
• 1995 Austria in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, pp.411-425            
• 1995 The Bomb and Europe. Britain, France, and the EEC entry negotiations 1961-1963, Journal of European Integration History, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.65-85 
• 1994 Using Europe and Abusing the Europeans: The Conservatives and the European Community 1957-1994, Contemporary Record, vol. 8, no. 2, pp.381-399 
• 1993 Between Haiderisation and Modernisation: The German Free Democrats since Party Unification, German Politics, vol. 2, no. 2, pp.224-242 
• 1993 Wie nach Austerlitz? London-Bonn-Paris und die britische EWG-Politik bis 1961, Integration, vol. 16, no. 1, pp.19-32 
• 1991 The Transatlantic Declaration: A New Basis for Relations between EC and US, Aussenpolitik, vol. 42, no. 4, pp.363-372 (with H.G. Krenzler)

Book Chapters (since 2000)

• 2008 Bringing People and Ideas Back in: Historical Research on the European Union, in David Phinnemore, Alex Warleigh (eds.), Reflections on European Integration (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
• 2008 Transnational Networks in European Governance: The Informal Politics of Integration, in Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht, Morten Rasmussen (eds.), The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (London: Routledge)
• 2008 Wettbewerb durch Repräsentation: Frankreich und Deutschland auf den Weltausstellungen 1878-1958, in Sylvain Schirmann (ed.), Frankreich, Deutschland und Belgien (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner)
• 2008 Political Communication at the World Exhibitions: Transnational Negotiation of Social and Education Policy, 1889-1904, in Matthias Albrecht et al. (eds.), Political Communication (London: Routledge) (with K. Dittrich)
• 2008 Negotiating National Images in Global Public Spaces: Intercultural Communication at Nineteenth Century World Exhibitions, in Maria Benzoni, Robert Frank and Silvia Pizzetti (eds.), National Images in World History (Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne)
• 2007 Von der Isolation im politischen Katholizismus in die (innere) Emigration: Transnationale Kooperation katholischer Volksparteien in Europa 1925-1933/38, in Jürgen Mittag (ed.), Politische Parteien und europäische Integration. Entwicklung und Perspektiven nationaler Parteienkooperation in Europa (Essen: Klartext), pp.215-228 
• 2007 'Warum lernen Sie nicht aus der Geschichte?' Deutschland und die Sanktionen der EU-14 gegen Österreich, in Michael Gehler, Ingrid Böhler (eds.), Verschiedene europäische Wege im Vergleich. Österreich und die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1945/49 bis zur Gegenwrt (Innsbruck: Studienverlag), 531-547
• 2006 From State to Society? The Historiography of European Integration, in Michelle Cini and Angela Bourne (eds.) Palgrave Advances in European Union Studies (Basingstoke: Palgrave), pp.190-208 
• 2006 A Transnational Policy Community in Retreat? The Christian Democratic Network in the EC 1958-72, in Antonio Varsori (ed.), Inside the European Community. Actors and Policies in the European Integration 1957-72 (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp.119-134 
• 2005 Transnational Western Europe: Integration as Political Society Formation since 1945, in Wolfram Kaiser and Peter Starie (eds.), Transnational European Union (London: Routledge), pp.7-35 
• 2004 'What alternative is open to us?': Britain, in Wolfram Kaiser and Jürgen Elvert (eds), European Union Enlargement. A Comparative History (London: Routledge), pp.9-30. 
• 2004 Transnationale Weltgeschichte im Zeichen der Globalisierung, in Eckart Conze, Ulrich Lappenküper and Guido Müller (eds.), Erneuerung und Erweiterung - Themen und Perspektiven einer Geschichte der internationalen Beziehungen (Cologne: Böhlau), pp.1-25. 
• 2004 Transnational Networks of Catholic Politicians in Exile, in Wolfram Kaiser and Helmut Wohnout (eds.), Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-45 (London: Routledge), pp.265-85. 
• 2004 Transnational Christian Democracy: From the Nouvelles Equipes Internationales to the European People's Party, in Michael Gehler and Wolfram Kaiser (eds), Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (London: Routledge), pp.221-37. 
• 2003 The Great Derby Race: Strategies of Cultural Representation at Nineteenth-Century World Exhibitions, in Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht and Frank Schumacher (eds.), Culture and International History (New York: Berghahn), pp.45-59 
• 2003 Halle - New York - Halle: Hans-Dietrich Genscher, in Birgit Bublies-Godau et al. (eds.), Jahrbuch zur Liberlismus-Forschung, vol. 15, pp.223-242. 
• 2003 'Clericalism - that is our enemy!': European anticlericalism and the culture wars, in Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser (eds.), Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: CUP), pp.47-76 
• 2003 "Es gab einmal einen Herrn von Papen": Deutschland und die Sanktionen gegen Österreich 2000, in Günter Bischof, Michael Gehler and Anton Pelinka (eds.), Österreich in der Europäischen Union / Austria in the European Union (Vienna: Böhlau), pp.505-528 
• 2003 Toward a "Core Europe" in a Christian Western Bloc. Transnational Cooperation in Europen Christian Democracy, 1925-1965, in: Thomas Kselman and Joseph A. Buttigieg (eds.), European Christian Democracy. Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives (Notre Dame/Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press), pp.240-266 (with M. Gehler) 
• 2003 Trigger-happy Protestant Materialists? The European Christian Democrats and the United States, in: Marc Trachtenberg (ed.), Between Empire and Alliance: America and Europe during the Cold War (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp.63-82. 
• 2002 Austria and Europe, 1923-2003: A Study in Ambivalence, in Rolf Steininger, Günter Bischof and Michael Gehler (eds), Austria in the Twentieth Century (New Brunswick / London: Transaction Publishers), pp.294-320    
• 2002 Inszenierung des Freihandels als weltgesellschaftliche Entwicklungsstrategie: Die "Great Exhibition" und der politische Kulturtransfer nach Kontinentaleuropa, in Franz Bosbach and John R. Davis (eds.), Die Weltausstellung von 1851 und ihre Folgen / The Great Exhibition and its Legacy (Munich: K.G. Saur), pp.162-180. 
• 2002 "Weltordnung der Partnerschaft": Genschers Ansätze einer westdeutschen Globalpolitik 1974-1982, in Hans-Dieter Lucas (ed.), Genscher, Deutschland und Europa (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp.201-221 
• 2001 L'ennemi héréditaire, c'est l'Angleterre: Les démocrates-chrétiens français et allemands face aux questions institutionnelles (1947-1963), in Marie-Thérèse Bitsch (ed.), Le couple France-Allemagne et les institutions européennes (Brussels: Bruylant), pp.307-323 
• 2001 Successes and Limits of Market Integration: The European Free Trade Association 1963-1969, in Wilfried Loth (ed.), Crises and Compromises: The European Project 1963-1969 (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp.371-390      
• 2001 "Une bataille est perdue, mais la guerre reste à gagner" - Das Scheitern der Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft 1954 und der Durchbruch zur horizontalen Wirtschaftsintegration, in Romain Kirt (ed.), Die Europäische Union und ihre Krisen (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp.79-95 
• 2001 No Second Versailles: Transnational Contacts in the People and Freedom Group and the International Christian Democratic Union 1936-1945, in Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout (eds.), Christdemokratie in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert / Christian Democracy in 20th Century Europe / La Démocratie Chrétienne en Europe au XXe siècle (Vienna: Böhlau), pp.616-641 
• 2001 Deutschland exkulpieren und Europa aufbauen: Parteienkooperation der europäischen Christdemokraten in den Nouvelles Equipes Internationales 1947-1965, in Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser, Helmut Wohnout (eds.), Christdemokratie in Europa im 20. Jahrhundert / Christian Democracy in 20th Century Europe / La Démocratie Chrétienne en Europe au XXe siècle (Vienna: Böhlau), pp.695-719 
• 2001 Party Games: The British EEC applications of 1961 and 1967, in Roger Broad, Virginia Preston (eds.), Moored to the Continent? Britain and European Integration (London: IHR/London University Press), pp.55-78      
• 2001 Institutionelle Ordnung und strategische Interessen: Die Christdemokraten und "Europa" nach 1945, in Wilfried Loth (ed.), Das europäische Projekt zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts (Opladen: Leske & Buderich), pp.81-97        
• 2000 The Decline and Rise of Radicalism: The Political Parties and Reform in the Twentieth Century, in Peter Catterall, Wolfram Kaiser, Ulrike Walton-Jordan (eds.), Reforming the Constitution. Debates in Twentieth-Century Britain (London: Frank Cass), pp.43-71 
• 2000 Due tecnocrati: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Helmut Schmidt e l'Europa negli anni Settanta, in Ariane Landuyt, Daniela Preda (eds.), I movimenti per l'unità europea 1970-1986 (Bologna: il Mulino), pp.489-511 
• 2000 Europäisch und pragmatisch: Der Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie, Europa und die Welt 1949-1973, in Werner Bührer, Edgar Grande (eds.), Unternehmerverbände und Staat in Deutschland (Baden-Baden: Nomos), pp.119-131 
• 2000 Against Napoleon and Hitler: Background Influences on British Diplomacy, in Wolfram Kaiser, Gillian Staerck (eds.), British Foreign Policy 1955-64. Contracting Options (Basingstoke: Macmillan), pp.110-131 
• 2000 Neutral, nicht neutral, auch egal: Großbritannien, die Neutralen und die europäische Integration 1945-1972, in Michael Gehler, Rolf Steininger (eds.), Die Neutralen und die europäische Integration seit 1945 (Vienna: Böhlau), pp.44-60

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