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Number of items: 43.
International History
  • Spohr, Kristina (2025). Finland goes west: the tortuous road from Cold War neutrality to the EU and NATO, 1989-1992. Journal of Cold War Studies, 26(4), 33 – 98. https://doi.org/10.1162/jcws_a_01244 picture_as_pdf
  • Spohr, Kristina (2024). How Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl made Europe. In Discussing Pax Germanica: The Rise and Limits of German Hegemony in European Integration (pp. 92-110). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003491224-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Spohr, Kristina (2023). After Merkel: Germany from peace to war. LSE Public Policy Review, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.77 picture_as_pdf
  • Ellison, James, Cox, Michael, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Harrison, Hope M., Ludlow, N. Piers, Romano, Angela, Spohr, Kristina, Zubok, Vladislav (2023). The war in Ukraine. Cold War History, 23(1), 121 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2162329
  • Spohr, Kristina (2022). With or without Russia? The Boris, Bill and Helmut Bromance and the harsh realities of securing Europe in the post-wall world, 1990-1994. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(1), 158 - 193. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2041816 picture_as_pdf
  • Spohr, Kristina (2 March 2022) Exposing the myth of Western betrayal of Russia over NATO’s eastern enlargement. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Spohr, Kristina (25 February 2022) Russia’s war against Ukraine is not only a challenge to territorial borders. It is Putin’s war to change Europe’s order. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Spohr, Kristina, Hamilton, Daniel, Moyer, Jason C. (Eds.) (2020). The Arctic and the world order. Brookings Institution.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2019). Post wall, post square: rebuilding the world after 1989. W. Collins & Co..
  • Hamilton, Daniel S., Spohr, Kristina (Eds.) (2019). Exiting the cold war, entering a new world. Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
  • Spohr, Kristina, Hamilton, Daniel (Eds.) (2019). Open door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic security after the Cold War. Brookings Institution.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2019). Wendezeit: die Neuordnung der Welt nach 1989. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.
  • Clemens, Clayton, Granieri, Ronald, Haeussler, Mathias, Sarotte, Mary Elise, Spohr, Kristina, Wicke, Christian, Port, Andrew I. (2018). In memory of the “Two Helmuts”: the lives, legacies, and historical impact of Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl: a forum with Clayton Clemens, Ronald Granieri, Mathias Haeussler, Mary Elise Sarotte, Kristina Spohr, and Christian Wicke. Central European History, 51(2), 282-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938918000389
  • Spohr, Kristina (2016). Helmut Schmidt: der Weltkanzler. Konrad Theiss Verlag.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2016). Caucasus, 1990. In Spohr, Kristina, Reynolds, David (Eds.), Transcending the Cold War: summits, statecraft, and the dissolution of bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990 . Oxford University Press.
  • Spohr, Kristina, Reynolds, David (Eds.) (2016). Transcending the Cold War: summits, statecraft, and the dissolution of bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990. Oxford University Press.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2016). A reminder of the road not taken: Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the holy grail of a united Europe.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2016). The global chancellor: Helmut Schmidt and the reshaping of the international order. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198747796.001.0001
  • Spohr, Kristina (2015). Germany, America and the shaping of post-Cold War Europe: a story of German international emancipation through political unification, 1989–90. Cold War History, 15(2), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2015.1018479
  • Spohr, Kristina (2015). Helmut Schmidt and the shaping of Western security in the late 1970s: the Guadeloupe summit of 1979. International History Review, 37(1), 167-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.836125
  • Spohr, Kristina (2015). NATO’s nuclear politics and the Schmidt-Carter rift. In Nuti, Leopoldo, Bozo, Frederic, Rey, Marie-Pierre, Rother, Bernd (Eds.), The Euromissile Crisis and the End of the Cold War . Stanford University Press.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2014). Die deutsch-amerikanische Sicherheitspolitik in der Phase der Wiedervereinigung 1989/90 or: a story of German international emancipation through political unification. Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen, 21, 265-288.
  • Spohr, Kristina (2012). Precluded or precedent-setting?: the "NATO enlargement question" in the triangular Bonn-Washington-Moscow diplomacy of 1990/1991 and beyond. Journal of Cold War Studies, 14(4), 4-54. https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00275
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2011). Contemporary history in Europe: from mastering national pasts to the future of writing the world. Journal of Contemporary History, 46(3), 506-530. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009411404583
  • Palmowski, Jan, Spohr Readman, Kristina (2011). Speaking truth to power: contemporary history in the twenty-first century. Journal of Contemporary History, 46(3), 485-505. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009411403337
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2011-06-28) Precedent-setting or precluded?: the ‘NATO enlargement question’ in the triangular Bonn–Washington–Moscow diplomacy of 1990/1991 and beyond [Other]. German Historical Institute London (GHIL) Seminars and Public Lectures, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2011). Conflict and cooperation in intra-alliance nuclear politics: Western Europe, America and the genesis of Nato's dual-track decision, 1977-1979. Journal of Cold War Studies, 13(2), 39-89. https://doi.org/10.1162/JCWS_a_00137
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2010). Germany and the politics of the neutron bomb, 1975-1979. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 21(2), 259-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2010.482473
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2009). Between political rhetoric and realpolitik calculations: western diplomacy and the baltic independence struggle in the Cold War endgame. In Hiden, John, Made, Vahur, Smith, David.J (Eds.), The Baltic Question During the Cold War (pp. 156-188). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2009). West Germany and the Baltic question during the cold war. In Hiden, John, Made, Vahur, Smith, David.J. (Eds.), The Baltic Question During the Cold War (pp. 100-133). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). Memoranda. In Dobson, Miriam, Ziemann, Benjamin (Eds.), Reading Primary Sources: the Interpretation of Texts From 19th and 20th Century History . Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). The Baltic states. In van Dijk, Ruud, Gray, William Glen, Savranskaya, Svetlana, Suri, Jeremi, Zhai, Qiang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (pp. 62-65). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). German unification. In van Dijk, Ruud, Gray, William Glen, Savranskaya, Svetlana, Suri, Jeremi, Zhai, Qiang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (pp. 352-353). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). International reactions to Soviet disintegration: the case of the Baltic States. In Bozo, Frederic, Rey, Marie-Pierre, Ludlow, N. Piers, Nuti, Leopoldo (Eds.), Europe and the End of the Cold War: a Reppraisal . Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2007). Finland and the Baltic states, 1914-1945. In Gerwarth, Robert (Ed.), Twisted Paths: Europe, 1914-1945 (pp. 271-296). Oxford University Press.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2007). The Baltic question in West German politics, 1949-90. Journal of Baltic Studies, 38(2), 153-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629770701345073
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2006). National interests and the power of “language” : West German diplomacy and the CSCE, 1972-1975. Journal of Strategic Studies, 29(6), 1077-1120. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390601016626
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2006). Between political rhetoric and realpolitik calculations: Western diplomacy and the Baltic independence struggle in the Cold War endgame. Cold War History, 6(1), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682740500395402
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (Ed.) (2004). Building effective and sustainable military capabilities: a systemic comparison of professional and conscript forces. IOS Press.
  • Hendrickson, Ryan C, Spohr Readman, Kristina (2004). From the Baltic to the Black Sea: Bush's NATO enlargement. White House Studies, 4(3), 319-336.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2004). Germany and the Baltic problem after the cold war: the development of a new Ostpolitik, 1989-2000. Frank Cass & Co..
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2002). The politics of NATO enlargement: problems, prospects and visions. In Hitchens, Theresa, Valasek, Tomas (Eds.), Growing Pains: the Debate on the Next Road of Nato Enlargement (pp. 101-125). Center for Defense Information (Washington, D.C.).
  • Spohr, Kristina (2000). German unification: between official history, academic scholarship, and political memoirs. Historical Journal, 43(3), 869-888. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X99001387
    • International Relations
  • Ellison, James, Cox, Michael, Hanhimäki, Jussi M., Harrison, Hope M., Ludlow, N. Piers, Romano, Angela, Spohr, Kristina, Zubok, Vladislav (2023). The war in Ukraine. Cold War History, 23(1), 121 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2023.2162329