Charlie Laderman

Charlie Laderman is a Professor of Strategy and Statecraft in the School of Civic Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin. He returns to the Forty Acres after previously being a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security in 2016–17.

Dr. Laderman works on transatlantic relations, grand strategy, and great power politics, with a focus on America’s rise to world power and its impact on global order. He is the author of three books. Sharing the Burden (Oxford University Press, 2019), traces the origins of British and American debates over the concept of “humanitarian intervention” and the failed campaign of the two nations to rescue Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the World War One era. Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War (Basic Books, 2021), written with Brendan Simms, is a global account of the most critical week in the diplomatic history of the twentieth century. And Donald Trump: The Making of a Worldview (I.B. Tauris, 2017), also with Brendan Simms, was the first academic monograph to examine President Trump’s pre-presidential views on foreign policy. He is currently working on The Resurrection of a President: Herbert Hoover and the American Century, to be published by Basic Books.

He was previously Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida’s Hamilton School, a Senior Lecturer in International History in the War Studies Department at King’s College, London, and a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He received his PhD in International History from the University of Cambridge, where he won the Member’s History Prize for his M.Phil. He was also a Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.