Karl Kaiser

Adjunct Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Belfer-407
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@hks.harvard.edu
Assistant
Veronica McClure (617-495-4725)
Karl Kaiser

Profile

Karl Kaiser is Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and Director of the Program on Transatlantic 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 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 US foreign policy, transatlantic and East-West relations, nuclear proliferation, strategic theory, and international environmental policy. He holds a Ph.D. from Cologne University and an Honorary Doctorate of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Courses

Fall

  • IGA-667 The United States and Europe in Global Affairs

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