Prof. Dr. Klaus Larres

Klaus Larres is the Richard M Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as a Counselor and Senior Foreign Policy Adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China. Larres is the former holder of the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and a Member/Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, NJ. He also was the Clifford Hackett Visiting Professor of European History at Yale and a Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin where he focused on German-Chinese relations. He was a Visiting Professor at Schwartzman College/Tsinghua University in Beijing and Tongji University in Shanghai as well as at Johns Hopkins University/SAIS and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He also held full-time professorial positions at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of London. Currently he is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai, India. Larres has published widely on transatlantic relations, the Cold War, and US-China-Europe relations in the 20th and 21st century world. His books include Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy (Yale UP, 2002), Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger and the Threat of a United Europe (Yale UP, 2021), Understanding Global Politics: Actors and Themes in International Affairs (co-ed., 2020), and many other books as well as a great number of articles on US-China-Germany/EU relations. He runs the Krasno Global Affairs & Business Council/Krasno Global Events Series at UNC and frequently contributes to the international media. www.klauslarres.org ​