Patrick O. Cohrs

Patrick O. Cohrs is Professor of International History at the University of Florence. He specialises in the history of modern international politics. His work focuses on war and peace and the transformation of the transatlantic and global order in the long twentieth century.

Before coming to Florence, Patrick O. Cohrs was Associate Professor of History and International Relations at Yale University where he also was one of the co-founders of the Yale International History Workshop. He received his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2002 and was subsequently Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, in 2006-7. Earlier, he was a fellow at the Kennedy School of Government and the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. He has also held fellowships in London, Paris, Tokyo and Budapest. Having early on taught at Humboldt University Berlin, he was a visiting professor at the Free International University of Social Studies in Rome (2016) and at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg (2017-18). In the autumn of 2022, he was a visiting professor at the Sciences Po in Paris. In the spring of 2023, he is returning to Oxford as visiting fellow at St Antony's College.

Patrick O. Cohrs is the author of "The Unfinished Peace after World War I. America, Britain and the Stabilisation of Europe, 1919-1932" (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and "The New Atlantic Order. The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933" (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in World History.

He is currently working on the third and final volume of his reappraisal of the transformation of the modern Atlantic and global order, which will cover the second half of the long twentieth century (1933-2020).

For more information and videos and podcasts about "The New Atlantic Order", his work and his vita visit: www.patrickocohrs.com