The cluster "Conflict and Identity" has been set up to provide a place to discuss historical concepts and events that shaped the identity of European countries since the late early modern age. We are interested in questions pertaining to war and peace, nationalism and national identity formation, but also in issues related to transnationalism and internationalism, global entanglements and regional specificities. The focus is on both states and non-state/supra-state actors, as well as on matters of governance and political theory and practice from the level of policy makers to that of wider societies. Even though the starting point of analysis is Europe, broadly defined, the analytical net is cast widely to include Europe’s functioning in a global context in order to include questions related to colonialism and empire.
The cluster organises various activities that bring together academic staff and students who do research on political, social, intellectual and cultural history of European countries, as well as on transnational relations in Europe. These activities include seminars, workshops, reading groups, and are organized both separately and in cooperation with other LSE research clusters, institutes and departments.
Spokesperson: Dr Artemis Photiadou
Keywords: Enlightenment, World War I, World War II, European integration, genocide, wartime violence, human rights, post-Cold War system, nationalism, communism, post-communism, peace movements in Europe
Dr Dina Gusejnova
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Modern European History; Intellectual and Cultural History; History and Social Theory
Dr Paul Keenan
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Cultural History of 18th-Century Russia
Professor N. Piers Ludlow
Professor of International History
Research interests:
Western Europe since 1945; European Integration; Cold War Transatlantic Relations; Britain in the EC/EU
Dr David Motadel
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Modern Europe; Europe’s Relations with the Wider World
Dr Artemis Photiadou
Assistant Professor
Research interests:
Britain and Europe; European Political Regimes; Intelligence History
Professor Paul Nolte
Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor
Research interests:
Space, Territory, and Landscape in Modern Germany; Human Geo-Interventions; History and Current Transformation of Democracy; Theories of Modernity and Social Order.
Dr Svetozar Rajak
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Cold War; Eastern Europe; Balkans
Dr Alex Mayhew
Associate Professor
Research interests: First World War; Modern Warfare; Morale; Crisis; Identity; Modern Britain
Dr Paul Stock
Associate Professor
Research interests:
Intellectual and Cultural History; Long Eighteenth Century; Britain; Idea of Europe; Spatial History; History of Cartography; Travel and Tourism
2021/22:
2020/21:
2019/20:
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2 March 2020: Professor Michael Cox (LSE IDEAS), Professor Matthew Jones, Professor Anita Prazmowska, Professor David Stevenson - LSE Festival: Lessons from the Past: how to learn and not learn from history
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11 February 2020: Professor Patricia Clavin (Oxford) - Annual International History Lecture: LSE and the Genesis of Global Governance
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10 February 2020: Professor Peter Burke (Cambridge), Professor Catherine Hall (UCL), Professor Mike Savage (LSE Sociology), Professor Jürgen Osterhammel (Konstanz) and Dr David Motadel - Book Launch: The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire
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10 December 2019: Professor Ulrich Herbert (GHIL Visiting Professor, 2019/20) - The Short and the Long Twentieth Century: German and European Perspectives
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21 November 2019: Dr Paul Stock - Book Launch: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
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30 October 2019: Dr Stuart Sweeney (University of Oxford) and Dr Tim Hochstrasser - Book Talk: The Europe Illusion? Britain, France, Germany and the Long History of European Integration
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23 October 2019: Dr Hope M. Harrison (George Washington University) - Department of International History and LSE IDEAS: 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: German Historical Memory and National Identity
2018/19:
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Book launch, Andrea Mason, British Policy Towards Poland, 1944-1956. Date to be determined.
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21 November 2019: Dr Paul Stock - Book Launch: Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830
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27-28 June 2019: Conference organised with The National Archives, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians, the University of Strathclyde and the British International History Group: "Peace making after the First World War 1919 – 1923"
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26 March 2019: Sir Stephen Wall (FCO), Professor Piers Ludlow, Dr Lindsay Aqui (University of Cambridge), "Chronicle of a Brexit Foretold? Britain and Europe in the Thatcher Era, 1975-85".
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28 February 2019: Annual Lecture, Professor Anne Deighton (University of Oxford): "'Breaking Up Is So Very Hard To Do’: Britain and the EU"
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25 February 2019: LSE Festival “New World Orders”, International History Lecture, Professor David Stevenson, Professor Michael Cox (LSE IDEAS) and Professor Annika Mombauer: "A New International Order? Peacemaking after the First World War"
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17 January 2019: Book launch, Professor Philip Murphy (University of London): "The Empire’s New Clothes. The Myth of the Commonwealth"
2017/18:
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Dina Gusejnova (2016) European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917-1957, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Tim Hochstrasser and P. Schröder (eds., 2003) , Early Modern Natural Law Theories: Context and Strategies in the Early Enlightenment, Springer.
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Tim Hochstrasser (2000) Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Paul Keenan (2013) St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703-1761, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.
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N. Piers Ludlow (2016) Roy Jenkins and the European Commission Presidency, 1976-1980: At the Heart of Europe, Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK.
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘Solidarity, Sanctions and Misunderstanding: the European Dimension of the Falklands Crisis’, International History Review
- N. Piers Ludlow (2020) ‘A Double-Edged Victory: Fontainebleau and the Resolution of the British Budget Problem, 1983-84’ in M. Gehler (ed.), Reshaping Europe: Towards a Political, Economic and Monetary Union, 1984-1989, Nomos, Germany.
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David Motadel (2014) Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA., USA.
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Anita Prazmowska (2015) Wladyslaw Gomulka. A Biography, I.B. Tauris, London, UK.
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Anita Prazmowska (2010) Poland. A Modern History, I.B. Tauris, London, UK.
- Paul Preston (2020) A People Betrayed. A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence, and Social Division in Modern Spain, 1874-2018, William Collins, London, UK.
- Paul Preston (2022) Architects of Terror. Paranoia and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain, William Collins, London, UK.
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David Stevenson (2017) 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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David Stevenson (2019) 'The Field Artillery Revolution and the European Military Balance, 1890-1914', The International History Review, 41, 6, pp. 1301-1324.
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David Stevenson (2020) 'Britain's Biggest Wartime Stoppage: the Origins of the Engineering Strike of May 1917', History, 105, 365 (2020), pp. 268-290.
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Paul Stock (2010) The Shelley-Byron Circle and the Idea of Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA.
- Paul Stock (2019) Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
- Paul Stock (2022) How Should Historians Talk About Spatial Agency? Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques, 48:1, 1-22.
Dr David Motadel, 2018-19: Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner
Professor Anita Prazmowska, 2016-18: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
Professor Prazmowska was awarded a two-year Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, 2016-18. The topic of her research was "The Cold War Jigsaw: Poland's role in the Angolan Civil War, 1976-1986".