Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Wolfram Kaiser

Professor Wolfram Kaiser

Professor of European Studies

SSHLS

Milldam
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3AS

wolfram.kaiser@port.ac.uk

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

  • Transnational Europe
  • Social, Historical and Cultural Change in Europe

Discipline Areas

  • Area Studies
  • History
  • International Relations
  • Politics and Public Administration

Current Research Projects

Research CV

Authored Books

  • 2012 Europa ausstellen. Das Museum als Praxisfeld der Europäisierung (with S. Krankenhagen and K. Poehls) (Cologne – Vienna: Böhlau), ISBN 978-3-412-20888-2, 278pp. Click here to view 
  • 2007 Christian Democracy and the Origins of European Union (Cambridge: CUP), ISBN 978-0-521-88310-8, 374pp. Click here to view.
  • 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

  • Forthcoming Societal Actors in European Integration. Polity-Building and Policy-Making 1958-92 (ed. with J.-H. Meyer) (Basingstoke: Palgrave)
  • 2010 European Union History. Themes and Debates (ed. with A. Varsori) (Basingstoke: Palgrave). Click here to view.
  • 2010 Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s: Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation (ed. with J.-H. Meyer) (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag/ special issue vol. 20, no. 3 of Comparativ)
  • 2010 Transnational Networks in Regional Integration. Governing Europe 1945-83 (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Gehler) (Basingstoke: Palgrave). Click here to view.  
  • 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). Click here to view.
  • 2009 Networks in European Union Governance (Cambridge: CUP/special issue vol. 29, no. 2 of Journal of Public Policy)
  • 2009 Netzwerke im europäischen Mehrebenensystem. Von 1945 bis zur Gegenwart (ed. with M. Gehler and B. Leucht) (Vienna – Cologne – Weimar: Böhlau)
  • 2009 The History of the European Union. Origins of a Trans- and Supranational Polity 1950-72 (ed. with B. Leucht and M. Rasmussen) (London: Routledge) Please click here to view this book on the Routledge website.
  • 2005 Transnational European Union: Towards a Common Political Space (ed. with P. Starie) (London: Routledge), ISBN 383291191X, 240pp. Please click here to view this book on the Routledge website. 
  • 2004 European Union Enlargement: A Comparative History (ed. with J. Elvert) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-415-33137-4, 245pp. Please click here to view this book on the Routledge website. 
  • 2004 Christian Democracy in Europe since 1945 (ed. with M. Gehler) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-7146-5662-3, 260pp. Please click here to view this book on the Routledge website.  
  • 2004 Political Catholicism in Europe 1918-1945 (ed. with H. Wohnout) (London: Routledge), ISBN 0-7146-8537-2, 304pp. Please click here to view this book on the Routledge website. 
  • 2003 Culture Wars. Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (ed. with C. Clarke) (Cambridge: CUP), ISBN 0-521-80997-5, 376pp. Please click here to view this book on the Cambridge University Press website.  
  • 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

  • From Great Men to Ordinary Citizens? The Biographical Approach to Narrating European Integration in Museums, Culture Unbound. Journal of Current Cultural Research, vol. 3, 385-400. Click here to view.
  • 2010 Non-State Actors in European Integration in the 1970s: Towards a Polity of Transnational Contestation, Comparativ, vol. 20, no. 3, 7-24 (with J.-H. Meyer)
  • 2009 Bringing History Back in to the Study of Transnational Networks in European Integration, Journal of Public Policy, vol. 29, no. 2, 223-239.
  • 2009 Transition und Europäisierung in Spanien und Portugal. Sozial- und christdemokratische Netzwerke im Übergang von der Diktatur zur parlamentarischen Demokratie, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, vol. 49, 259-282 (with C. Salm).
  • 2009 Politiknetzwerke in der europäischen Integration: Zeitgeschichte und Politikwissenschaft im Dialog, integration, vol. 32, no. 2, 123-135.
  • 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), 35-49.
  • 2008 History meets Politics: Overcoming the Interdisciplinary Volapük in Research on the EU, Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 15, no. 2, 300-313.
  • 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, 403-424
  • 2005 Cultural Transfer of Free Trade at the World Exhibitions 1851-62, Journal of Modern History, vol.77, no.3, Jan, 563-590, ISSN 0022-2801, DOI 10.1086/497717
  • 2004 Vom Staat zur Gesellschaft? Zur Historiographie der europäischen Integration, Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 55, no. 11, 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, 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, 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, 11-36
  • 2001 Transnationalism and early European integration: The NEI and the Geneva Circle 1947-57, The Historical Journal, vol. 44, no. 3, 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, 439-465
  • 2000 Die Welt im Dorf. Weltausstellungen von London 1851 bis Hannover 2000, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, vol. 22/23, 3-10
  • 2000 Zeitgeschichtliche Quelleneditionen: Methoden und Forschungspraxis anhand ausgewählter Beispiele, Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs, vol. 48, 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, 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, 76-87 (with P. Visuri, C. Malmström, A. Hjelseth)
  • 1995 Austria in the European Union, Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 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, 65-85
  • 1994 Using Europe and Abusing the Europeans: The Conservatives and the European Community 1957-1994, Contemporary Record, vol. 8, no. 2, 381-399
  • 1993 Between Haiderisation and Modernisation: The German Free Democrats since Party Unification, German Politics, vol. 2, no. 2, 224-242
  • 1993 Wie nach Austerlitz? London-Bonn-Paris und die britische EWG-Politik bis 1961, Integration, vol. 16, no. 1, 19-32
  • 1991 The Transatlantic Declaration: A New Basis for Relations between EC and US, Aussenpolitik, vol. 42, no. 4, 363-372 (with H.G. Krenzler)

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