Kristina Spohr is Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2018-2020 she was inaugural holder of the German MFA & DAAD sponsored Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Vis. Chair at SAIS-Johns Hopkins in Washington DC, and has since been a non-residential Senior Fellow at SAIS’ Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs.
Spohr is the author or editor of a dozen books, most recently “Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World the World After 1989” (WilliamCollins, 2019/ Yale UP, 2020 ), which was published together with the German edition “Wendezeit” (DVA, 2019), the Spanish Edition “Después del Muro” (Taurus, 2021), and the Russian edition “Kogda padali steni” (ves mir, 2023). Wendezeit won the prestigious award “Das politikwissenschaftliche Buch” 2020 for the best political science book published Germany. Previously she published “The Global Chancellor”/ “Helmut Schmidt: Der Weltkanzler” (2016), and ‘Germany and the Baltic problem after the Cold War: The Development of a New Ostpolitik, 1989-2000” (2004/2013)
She has also released, with Daniel S. Hamilton, “The Arctic and World Order” (2020), “Open Door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security after the Cold War” (2019), “Exiting the Cold War, Entering a New World” (2019);with David Reynolds, “Transcending the Cold War” (2016);and Building Sustainable and Effective Capabilities: A Systemic Comparison of Professional and Conscript Forces (2004).
In 2023-2024 she was International Competition Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Polar Institute, in Washington DC, as she is currently writing a global history of the Arctic (under contract with Basic Books). Fluent in five languages (Finnish, German, English, French and Russian), she is a frequent commentator for the international media. Her regular OpEds appear in El Pais, Financial Times, and New Statesman.
