Dr Ralph Dietl Curriculum Vitae Birthplace/date of birth Stuttgart, 29 February 1964 Nationality German Marital status Married Current position Office address: Senior Lecturer in International & European History, QUB Queen s University Belfast School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies 21 University Square Belfast BT7 1NN Tel: 00442890973548 Educational training 1970-1974 primary school: Esslingen-Mettingen. 1974-1984 grammer school:georgii-gymnasium, Esslingen (grade 1.6 very good). 1984-1985 military service in Böblingen (price for excellence). 1986-89 studies in Modern History, Philosophy and Economics at the Eberhard- Karls-Universität Tübingen. 1989-1990 studies at Washington University, St. Louis/MO. (Magister Artium in American History, Washington University, St. Louis - grade A-). 1990-1995 Ph.D program at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen. (Ph.D - magna cum laude, 1995). 4/92-10/92 DAAD Scholarship: doctoral research in Washington, DC. 1995-2001 Postdoctoral research at Bergische University Wuppertal. 2001-2003 Research as a Research and Teaching Fellow, War Studies Department, King s College. Research in Research Institutions outside the United Kingdom - League of Nations Archive, Geneva - Swiss National Archive, Bern - Austrian National Archive, Wien - Roosevelt Studies Centre, Middleburg, Netherlands - National Archives, Washington/College Park, USA - National Archives, Mexico City (AGN)
- Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington DC, USA - Truman Library, Independence/MO, USA - Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene/KS, USA - John F. Kennedy Library, Boston/MA, USA - Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, The Hague, Netherlands - Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, Brussels, Belgium - Service Historique: Belgian Defence Ministry, Brussels, Belgium - NATO Archive, Brussels, Belgium - Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes, Bonn/Berlin - Bundesarchiv, Koblenz - Archiv für Christlich-Demokratische Politik, Sankt Augustin - Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn - Stiftung Bundeskanzler Adenaer Haus, Rhöndorf - Bundesarchiv/Militärarchiv, Freiburg Research in the United Kingdom - Public Record Office/National Archives of the United Kingdom Academic Degree 23 May 1990 MA (American History) Washington University, St. Louis (A-) 20 Jan 1995 Ph.D. (Contemporary History) Eberhard Karls-University Tübingen magna cum laude 25 Nov 2005 Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching, Queen s University Belfast Languages - German (native language) - English (fluent) - French - Latin (Grosses Latinum) - Spanish (Italian and Dutch reading knowledge) Research Grants/Grants/Prices 1989-1990 Grant of the Eberhard-Karls University for an Exchange with Washington University, St. Louis/MO 1992 Grant of DAAD for research at the National Archives, Washington 2008 Walter Laqueur Price for best article in Contemporary History
Employment Project Financed University Employment 1990-1993 Geprüfte wissenschafliche Hilfskraft at the Institute for Contemporary History. Project: Satzungen und Rechtsakte Internationaler Organisationen (funded by the state of Baden-Württemberg) University Employment 1993-1995 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (BAT IIa) am Institut für Zeitgesschichte der Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen. 1995-2001 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent/Assistent Professor (C1) am Fachbereich Geschichte at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal Visiting Lectureship/Research Position 2001-2003 Visiting Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King s College. Lecturerships 2003-2004 Lecturer A in European Studies, School of Politics and International Studies, Queens University Belfast. 2004-2007 Lecturer B in International & European History, School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies. 2007-2009 Senior Lecturer in International and European History. Additional Employment 1984-1985 Military Service/ Jägerbat. Administrative Positions - Member: Fachbereichsrat (Management), Universität Wuppertal - Member of the Appointments Committee (Modern History Professor Walther) - Undergraduate Pathway Coordinator European and International Studies, QUB
- Program Director European and International Studies, QUB - Advisor of Studies, QUB - Personal Tutor, QUB - ERASMUS Exchange Program Director, PISP, QUB - Welfare & Disabilities Officer, QUB - Member of the School Board, QUB - Member of the Education Committee, QUB - Member of the Student Progress Committee, QUB - Member of the Staff-Consultative Committee, QUB - Member of the Plagiarism Committee, QUB - Member of the Program Review Committee, QUB - Member of the Periodic Review Working Group, QUB Membership in Scientific Societies - Commission of History of International Relations - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien - Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien International Conference Contributions Presentations at a wide array of national and international conferences in contemporary history and political science: Cologne, Wuppertal, Essen, Erlangen, Florence, Berlin, Zurich, Rhöndorf, Bodo, Washington, Hull, Cork, Dundee, Rome, Canterbury. Organisation of Conferences 1998 4. NRW Amerikanisten-Konferenz, Wuppertal (organizer) 1998 Europe and Southeast Asia, Wuppertal (co-organizer) Teaching Experience Tübingen WS 1993/94 Übung: WS 1994/95 Übung: Mexico, the Great Powers and the First World War The Alliance Systems of the Cold War: NATO and Warsaw Pact Wuppertal
SS 1995: Übung: American Foreign Policy, 1939-1963 WS 1995/96: Übung: The United States of America and the Far East, 1890-1975 WS 1995/96: Proseminar The First World War SS 1996 Übung The History of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the 19th and 20th Century SS 1996 Übung The History of the League of Nations WS 1996/97 Proseminar Germany, 1945-1949 WS 1996/97 Übung The European Defence Community SS 1997 Übung The Thirty Years War SS 1997 Übung The Idea of Europe in the Interwar Period WS 1997/98 Übung Absolutism WS 1997/98 Übung European Security after 1945 SS 1998 Übung Great Britain and the European Community SS 1998 Proseminar Imperialism WS 1998/99 Übung The Benelux and European Integration WS 1998/99 Proseminar The Federal Republic of Germany SS 1999 Übung The British Commonwealth SS 1999 Übung EURATOM The History of the European Atomic Energy Agency WS 1999/00 Proseminar The Foreign Relations of the German Empire, 1871-1918 WS 1999/00 Hauptseminar Europe and the First World War SS 2000 Übung European Integration and Decolonisation SS 2000 Proseminar History of the Second World War WS 2000/01 Übung WS 2000/01 Proseminar England in the Era of Revolution Sources for the History of the Federal Republic of Germany Kings College WS 2001/02 MA seminar: European Security Queen s University Belfast WS 2003/04 MA Approaches to International Relations - contributing WS 2003/04 FY Issues in Contemporary European Society -contributing SS 2004 MA History of European Integration - convener SS 2004 TY Integration and Disintegration - convener WS 2004/05 MA Approaches to International Relations - contributing WS 2004/05 SY American Political Development - contributing WS 2004/05 FY Issues in contemporary European History - contributing WS 2004/05 MA Approaches to European Politics - contributing SS 2005 MA International Security - convenor SS 2005 SY Integration and Disintegration convenor SS 2005 TU Integration and Disintegration I SS 2005 TU Integration and Disintegration II
WS 2005/06 MA Approaches to International Relations - contributing WS 2005/06 MA European Integration & Public Policy contributing WS 2005/06 MA The European Union. Institutions, Process, Policy contrib. WS 2005/06 FY Contemporary Europe contributing WS 2005/06 FY World Politics contributing WS 2005/06 TY American Political Development contributing SS 2006 MA International Security convener SS 2006 SY Integration & Disintegration convener SS 2006 TU Integration & Disintegration I SS 2006 TU Integration & Disintegration II SS 2006 TU Integration & Disintegration III SS 2006 TU Integration & Disintegration IV WS 2006/07 MA Approaches to International Relations contributing WS 2006/07 MA The European Union. Institutions, Process, Policy contrib. WS 2006/07 FY World Politics contributing WS 2006/07 FY Contemporary Europe contributing WS 2006/07 TY American Politics SS 2007 MA International Security convener SS 2007 SY Integration & Disintegration convener SS 2007 TU Integration & Disintegration I SS 2007 TU Integration & Disintegration II WS 2007/08 MA European Integration and Public Policy contributing WS 2007/08 MA The European Union. Institutions, Process, Policy contrib.. WS 2007/08 Mre Approaches to Social Science Research contributing WS 2007/08 FY Contemporary Europe contributing WS 2007/08 TY American Politics contributing SS2008 MA International Security convener SS2008 SY Integration & Disintegration convener SS2208 TU Integration & Disintegration WS 2008/09 Sabbatical SS 2009 SY Integration & Disintegration convener SS2009 TU Integration & Disintegration I SS 2009 TU Integration & Disintegration II SS 2009 TU Integration & Disintegration III SS 2009 TY American Politics contriburting SS 2009 MA International Security convener. Ph D Supervision Kevin Harrington Ph.D. submitted Neil McKittrick Ph.D. differentiated Kieran Neeson Ph.D. undifferentiated Internal Examiner: Roisin Smith (2007) Thomas Adell (2009)
Publications Monographs 1. Die USA und Mittelamerika. Die Außenpolitik von William J. Bryan 1913-1915 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1996). 2. Emanzipation und Kontrolle. Europa in der Westlichen Sicherheitspolitik, 1948-1963, Vol I, HMRG, Bd. 64, Stuttgart: Steiner 2006. 3. Emanzipation und Kontrolle. Europa in der Westlichen Sicherheitspolitik, 1948-1963, vol. II., HMRG, Bd. 67, Stuttgart: Steiner 2007. Editions 4. Das System der Vereinten Nationen und seine Vorläufer, vol.ii, 19. Jahrhundert und Völkerbundszeit, (München: Beck, 1996) [together with Franz Knipping and Fabian Rosenbusch]. 5. The United Nations System and Its Predecessors, vol. II., Predecessors of the United Nations (Oxford: OUP, 1997). [together with Franz Knipping]. 6. Begegnung zweier Kontinente. Die USA und Europa seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Trier: WVT, 1999) [together with Franz Knipping] 7. Dokumente zur Europäischen Sicherheitspolitik, 1948-1963, Stuttgart: Steiner 2009. Articles 8. Friedensvermittlung oder Siegfrieden. William J. Bryan und der Erste Weltkrieg, in Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase/Jürgen Heideking (eds), Zwei Wege in die Moderne: Aspekte der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen 1900-1918 (Trier: WVT,1998), pp. 211-230. 9. American Expansion: From Jeffersonianism to Wilsonianism. The United States and Its Southern Neighbors at the Turn of the Century, in: Walther L. Bernecker (ed), 10. 1898: su significado para Centroamérica y el Caribe. Cesura, cambio, continuidad? (Frankfurt/Madrid: Vervuert, 1998), pp.47-60. 11. Die Westeuropäische Union. Rüstungskooperation und Europäische Integration in den Fünfzigerjahren, in Historische Mitteilungen 12,1 (1999), pp. 90-112. 12. Die Westeuropäische Union - A Return to the Dark Ages? Die Vereinigten Staaten und die europäische Integration 1953/55, in Dietl/Knipping, Begegnungen zweier Kontinente, pp. 67-86.
13. The Quest for a Global Pax Americana: Myths and Realities, in Norbert Finzsch/Hermann Wellenreuther (eds), Visions of the Future in Germany and America (Oxford: Berg, 2001), pp. 231-248. 14, Une CED atomique? Great Britain, the Continent and European Nuclear Cooperation, 1954-1957?, in I quaderni del Forum per i problemi della pace e della guerra 16,1 (2002), pp. 25-46. 15. Une déception amoureuse?. Great Britain, the Continent and European Nuclear Cooperation, 1954-1957, in Cold War History 3,1 (2002), pp.29-66. 16. Sole Master of the Western Nuclear Strength? The United States, Western Europe and the Elusiveness of a European Defence Identity 1959-1964, in Wilfried Loth, Europe, Cold War and Co-existence, 1953-1965 (London: Frank Cass, 2004), pp. 17. Bibliographical Essay: Towards a European Security and Defence Policy, in Cold War History, 3,3 (April 2003), 144-165. 18. Beyond Deterrence: NATO, Western Europe and Nuclear Diplomacy, in Karl L. Kleve (ed), Cold War, Military Power and the Civilian Society, Bodø 2003, pp.81-98. 19. Kontinuität und Wandel. Zur Geschichte der europäischen Zusammenarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik, 1948-2003, in Reinhard C. Meier Walser (ed.), Gemeinsam Sicher. Vision und Realität europäischer Sicherheitspolitik (München: Olzog, 2004). 19-87. 20. Wir müssen Kernwaffen produzieren Adenauer und die deutsch-französische Nuklearkooperation, 1956-1963, in: Rhöndorfer Gespräche, Bd. 21, (Bonn: Bouvier 2005), 40-64 21 In Defence of the West: General L. Norstad, NATO Nuclear Forces and Transatlantic Relations, 1956-1963, in: Diplomacy & Statecraft 17,2 (2006), 347-392. 22. "Towards a European Third Force? Reflections on the European Political and Security Cooperation, 1958-64", in Anna Locher/Christian Nünlist (eds), Transatlantic Studies at Stake. Aspects of NATO 1956-1972 (Zürcher Beiträge zur Sicherheits und Konfliktforschung, Bd. 78), 23-50. 23. Suez 1956: A European Intervention? In: Contemporary History 43, 2 (2008), 259-278, Winner the Walter Laqueur Price 2008. 24. European Security and Defence Policy, in Klaus Larres (ed), The Blackwell Companion to the Europe Since 1945 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 323-354. 25. The WEU: A Europe of the Seven, 1954-1969, in: Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2009, 7,4 (2009), 431-452.
26. A Veiled Challenge. Anglo-French Nuclear Co-operation, 1959-1960, H-Diplo, 11 May 2009. http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/reviews/pdf/ar229.pdf 27. The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and the Nuclear Planning Group, 1965-1969, in Journal of Transatlantic Studies [forthcoming: 2010] 28. Transforming NATO: Great Britain and NATO Reform, in: Cold War Studies, [forthcoming 2010 accepted with minor revisions] Current Research Projects (1) Politico-strategic policy planning in national and international bureaucracies. A second grant application is under preparation. The project will serve the exploration of planning processes within the foreign and defence ministries of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Belfast, October 2009.