POLIS Academic
Professor Brendan Simms
Professor in the History of International Relations
As Newton-Sheehy Teaching Fellow, Brendan Simms lectures for the option "International History since 1945" and leads seminar groups on the same subject. He also lectures to the Faculty of History on geopolitics and the primacy of foreign policy, and conducts the Themes and Sources seminar on "Revolutions in Foreign Policy". He supervises MPhil and PhD theses for both the Centre and the Faculty of History, which deal primarily with Central European history during the Napoleonic period, Anglo-German relations after Unification, and with the recent conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Research Interests
His current research projects are an edited volume on The Primacy of Foreign Policy in German History and New Worlds and Old Balances, a study of British foreign policy in the 18th Century, focussing on Britain's global strategic management of its commitments in Europe and overseas.
Books
Unfinest hour, Britain and the destruction of Bosnia Penguin Press, 2001
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Research Interests:
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in German History and New Worlds and Old Balances