Professor Thomas Weber

MSt., DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS

Chair in History & International Affairs

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Email Address: t.weber@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 273539
School/Department: School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

Biography

Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the 黑料网. He also is a of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; and a of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present.

A native of Breckerfeld in Westphalia, he earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford. He also has taught or has held fellowships at Harvard, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, and the University of Glasgow.

His 2004 book won a Golden Light Award and an Infinity Award. is the recipient of the 2008 Duc d’Arenberg History Prize for the best book on European History, while won the 2010 Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium for the best book on military history. a El Mundo Top 10 Best Seller, was shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize. He also brought out and .

His latest book, co-written with Joachim A. Lang, will be published by CUP & the Royal Historical Society in early 2027 as 'Goebbels and the Führer': A Long History of Disinformation and Cognitive Warfare.

His online course '' is from anywhere in the world.

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Controversy in the time of COVID-19: The dispute over the Hohenzollerns鈥� relationship to National Socialism

Nach der Nacht: Holocaust眉berlebende 眉ber die Zukunft der Demokratie

Hitler and the Nazi Party

Die Scheuklappe unserer Erinnerung: Warum wir Hitler nicht wiedererkennen

Die Weltkriege des Desinformation und Demagogie: Damals und Heute

Die Wiederkehr der Geschichte

Mussolini als falscher Prophet der Krise

Wenn das Gestern anklopft: Weimar und die Wiederkehr der Geschichte

Zwei Konzepte des Illiberalismus: Donald Trumps und Adolf Hitlers Antworten auf die Krise des Liberalismus

Zwei Wege des Konservativismus: Lektionen aus dem Untergang

Lorena De Vita. Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-69. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020: Review by Thomas Weber, 黑料网 and Hoover Institution, Stanford University

'Wir sind keine Deutschen': Liechtensteins nationale Sicherheitsstrategie, Hitlers Strategie und die Unabh盲ngigkeit und Souver盲nit盲t Lichtensteins, 1933-1945

Adolf Hitler, the Constructivist

Anarchy and the State of Nature in Donald Trump鈥檚 America and Adolf Hitler鈥檚 Germany鈥�

Streit in Zeiten der Demokratie: Die Auseinandersetzung um das Verh盲ltnis der Hohenzollern zum Nationalsozialismus

Germany in Crisis: Hitler鈥檚 Antisemitism as a Function of Existential Anxiety and a Quest for Sustainable Security

Die Krise der Welt: 1933 und 2023

Ralf Georg, Reuth, Hitler: Zentrale Aspekte seiner Gewaltherrschaft

1933: 90 Jahre danach

Als die Demokratie starb: Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten 鈥� Geschichte und Gegenwart

Das Jahr, in dem die Gegenwart geboren wurde

Nationalsozialistische illiberale Demokratie

Devenir Hitler: La fabrique d鈥檜n nazi

Die Attraktivit盲t des Kollektivismus ernst nehmen

Streit in Zeiten der Pandemie: Die Auseinandersetzung um das Verh盲ltnis der Hohenzollern zum Nationalsozialismus

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