Spohr Readman, Kristina

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, K. & Reynolds, D. (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, L., Bozo, F., Rey, M. & Rother, B. (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, J., Made, V. & Smith, D. (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, J., Made, V. & Smith, D. (Eds.), The Baltic Question During the Cold War (pp. 100-133). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). Memoranda. In Dobson, M. & Ziemann, B. (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, R., Gray, W. G., Savranskaya, S., Suri, J. & Zhai, Q. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Cold War (pp. 62-65). Routledge.
  • Spohr Readman, Kristina (2008). German unification. In van Dijk, R., Gray, W. G., Savranskaya, S., Suri, J. & Zhai, Q. (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, F., Rey, M., Ludlow, N. P. & Nuti, L. (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, R. (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, T. & Valasek, T. (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