Professor Jonathan Haslam

History of thought in international relations; history of Soviet foreign policy; contemporary history of Chile; biography (E H Carr); origins of the Second World War.

Elected 2009

Year elected: 2009
Subjects: History, Politics
Website: https://www.ias.edu/people/faculty-and-emeriti/haslam

Professor Haslam's current focus is on the role of ideas in the implosion of the European states system in the first half of the 20th Century. To that end he is exploring various archives, including that of Comintern and the main diplomatic archives, plus published diaries, newspapers and journals across Europe.

Current post

George F. Kennan Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor in the History of International Relations

Jan 2004 - Jun 2015

University of Cambridge Reader in the History of International Relations

Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

University of Cambridge Assistant Director of Studies in International Relations

Jan 1991 - Jan 2000

Publications

Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

by Jonathan Haslam - Published in 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall

by Jonathan Haslam - Published in 2012 by Yale University Press

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