Trump’s return to power means Europe faces a choice between strategic dependency and autonomous leadership, with Ukraine’s fate serving as the ultimate test of the EU’s geopolitical maturity, argues Oleksiy Kandyuk
Lisa Marie Freitag explores Kohl and Germany navigated NATO enlargement, enabling Central and Eastern European countries to shape their fate while Russia manipulates recent history
How does the long history of JHU, America’s first research university, still shape the struggle over merit, access, and inclusion today?
Markus J. Diepold explores how German American Studies can benefit from a stronger focus on Early American history, inspired by its vast scales and temporal depth.
Drawing from archival records, this essay explores visits by scholars from socialist states, providing insights into Regensburg University’s role in knowledge transfer during the Cold War.
UR historian Klaus Buchenau reveals striking regional differences shaped by distinctive social and historical contexts in Latin America and Southeast Europe.
Ulf Brunnbauer takes us on a journey from the Adriatic to the Pacific, tracing the interconnections of human, environmental and animal actors who shape the global history of capitalism on multiple scales
How were labour and social relations transformed at the end of the Cold War? What did neoliberal models and the effacement of progressive traditions mean for gender relations?
Was haben Schiffe und der Zerfall Jugoslawiens miteinander zu tun? Mehr als man glauben könnte, so argumentiert Ulf Brunnbauer
Was a kosher butcher with a US passport in small-town Croatia part of an international human trafficking ring? Or was he really enjoying the healthy waters? Ulf Brunnbauer explores a life story to consider migration, border and identity regimes in modern Europe and the Americas.