Karl Kaiser

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Kennedy School
Office Address
Belfer-G-3
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 40
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-1899
Fax: 617-495-8292
Email: Karl_Kaiser@ksg.harvard.edu
Karl Kaiser

Profile

Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Program on Trans-Atlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He was educated at the Universities of Cologne, Grenoble and Oxford and taught at the Universities of Bonn, Johns Hopkins (Bologna), Saarbruecken, Cologne, the Hebrew University, and the Departments of Government and Social Studies of Harvard. He was a Director of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Bonn/Berlin and an advisor to Chancellors Brandt and Schmidt. He was a member of the German Council of Environmental Advisors. He serves on the Board of Foreign Policy, Internationale Politik, the Asian-Pacific Review, the Advisory Board of the American-Jewish Committee, Berlin, and the Board of the Federal Academy of Security Policy, Berlin. He is a recipient of the Atlantic Award of NATO. Professor Kaiser is the author or editor of several hundred articles and about fifty books in the fields of world affairs, German, French, British, and U.S. foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a PhD from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

 

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-329 The United States and Europe in Global Affairs

Spring

  • IGA-334 European Foreign Policies

Media Expertise

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Research

Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Academic Journals
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Im Westen doch Neues. Veränderte Konstellationen ermöglichen vertiefte transatlantische Kooperation." Internationale Politik (July/August 2007): 118-119.
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Not Quite Quiet on the Western Front." AICGS Advisor (7 June 2007).
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Uroki Evropi i primivenie v Asii." Rossia v global noi politike (April 2007): 88-98.
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Les Grandes Puissances au XXIe Siècle" Politique Étrangère (March 2007): 619-632.
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Turkey and Transatlantic Relations: Conflicting Approaches to an Increasingly Vital Ally." Internationale Politik 7.4 (Fall 2006).
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Turkey and Transatlantic Relations: Conflicting Approaches to an Increasingly Vital Ally." Internationale Politik 7.4 (Fall 2006).
    • Kaiser, Karl. "European History 101 for Japan and China." Internationale Politik 7.3 (Summer 2006): 90-97.
  • Book Chapters
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Turkey as an Issue in US-European Relations." The Importance of Being European: Turkey, the EU, and the Middle East. Ed. Nimrod Goren and Amikan Nachmani. European Forum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Conference and Lecture Series, 2007.
  • Research Papers/Reports
    • Kaiser, Karl. "Cooperation in Global Governance among East Asia, North America, and Europe: A European Perspective." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-001, January 2008.