The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860–1933

Patrick O. Cohrs is Professor of International History at the University of Florence. He specialises in the history of modern international politics.His work focuses on war and peace and the transformation of the transatlantic and global order in the 19th and 20th centuries.Before coming to Florence, Patrick O. Cohrs was Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Yale University where he also was one of the co-founders of the Yale International History Workshop. Professor Cohrs received his DPhil from Oxford University in 2002 and was subsequently Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2006-7. Earlier, he was a fellow both at the Kennedy School of Government and at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He has also held fellowships in London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest. Having once taught at Humboldt University Berlin, he was a visiting professor at the Free International University of Social Studies in Rome (2016) and at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (2017-18).Professor Cohrs is the author of The Unfinished Peace after World War I. America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932 (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and of The New Atlantic Order. The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933 (Cambridge University Press, 2022).He is currently working on the next and final volume of his study of the transformation of the modern Atlantic and global order, which will cover the second half of the “long” twentieth century (1933- 2020).

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