Walter Laqueur

Biographic Data

ID161759
NAMEWalter Laqueur
GIVEN NAMESWalter
FAMILY NAMELaqueur
SIGNATURELAQUEUR W
AFFILIATIONSCenter for Strategic and International Studies
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS113
TOTAL CITATIONS190
AUTHOR COUNT113
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1958
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX7

  • Soviet Union and the Middle East

    Walter Z Laqueur, Walter LaqueurBOOKSoviet Union and the Middle East2021

  • Russia and Germany: A Century of Conflict

    Walter LaqueurBOOKRussia and Germany2018

    Despite changes in the international constellation since Russia and Germany initially appeared in 1965, the relationship between these two nations remains the most important single issue in European politics and East-West affairs. This study of what Russians and Germans have thought of each other and the fateful consequences of their interacting ideas is of lasting significance.The fact that Russia and Germany have embodied extreme manifestations…

  • Young Germany: A History of the German Youth Movement

    Walter Laqueur, R H S CrossmanBOOKYoung Germany2017Cited by: 16

    Young Germany explores the revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. It is a readable history of the Free Youth Movement, one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur, who grew up in Germany, retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background.Today his study is of even greater interest and importance than when it was first published in 1962. In his new introduction t…

  • The Political Psychology of Appeasement: Finlandization and Other Unpopular Essays

    Walter LaqueurBOOKPolitical Psychology of Appeasement2017

    First published in the 1980s, The Political Psychology of Appeasement contains some of the most influential political journalism of the 1970s. The author, a leading contemporary historian and commentator on international affairs, provides an incisive critique of the weaknesses and inconsistencies of U.S. foreign policy in the 1970s as well as a diagnosis of the malaise of Western Europe.Laqueur's essays range from the subject of Finlandization to…

  • Guerrilla Warfare: A Historical & Critical Study

    Walter LaqueurBOOKGuerrilla Warfare2017

    As the author makes clear, every book has a history; Guerrilla Warfare is no exception. Together with its sequel Terrorism (and two companion readers) it was part of a wider study: to give a critical interpretation of guerrilla and terrorism theory and practice throughout history. It did not aim at providing a general theory of political violence, nor did it give instructions on how to conduct guerrilla warfare and terrorist operations. Its aim r…

  • A History of Terrorism

    Walter LaqueurBOOKHistory of Terrorism2017

    Assassinations, bombings, hijackings, diplomatic kidnappings-terrorism is the most publicized form of political violence. The history of terrorism goes back a very long time, but the very fact that there is such a history has frequently been ignored, even suppressed. This may be because terrorism has not appeared with equal intensity at all times. When terrorism reappeared in the late twentieth century after a period of relative calm, there was t…

  • Optimism in Politics: Reflections on Contemporary History

    Walter LaqueurBOOKOptimism in Politics2017

  • Political Psychology of Appeasement: Finlandization and Other Unpopular Essays

    Walter LaqueurBOOKPolitical Psychology of Appeasement2017

  • The Struggle for the Middle East: The Soviet Union and the Middle East, 1958-68

    Walter LaqueurBOOKStruggle for the Middle East2016

    This book, first published in 1969, surveys Soviet policies and Middle Eastern responses during the turbulent 1960s. It deals with changing moods of Turkey and Iran, the Arab-Israeli conflict in the context of big power rivalry in the Middle East, the Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean, and the new Soviet interest in Gulf oil. The author also reviews the changing orientations of Middle Eastern communism in the new age of polycentrism.

  • Fascism past and present, west and east: An international debate on concepts and cases in the comparative study of the extreme right

    Roger Griffin, Werner Loh et al.BOOKFascism Past and Present, West…2016

    In the opinion of some historians the era of fascism ended with the deaths of Mussolini and Hitler. Yet the debate about its nature as a historical phenomenon and its value as a term of historical analysis continues to rage with ever greater intensity, each major attempt to resolve it producing different patterns of support, dissent, and even hostility, from academic colleagues. Nevertheless, a number of developments since 1945 not only complicat…

  • La stratégie musulmane de la Russie

    Walter Laqueur, Isabelle HausserARTICLECommentaire2010

    L’Islam est « le destin de la Russie ». Telle etait la prediction faite il y a quelques annees par Alexei Malachenko, l’un des principaux (et des plus fiables) experts russes de l’Islam. Il est possible que ce soit exagere, mais peut-etre pas tant que cela. La demographie est, elle aussi, le destin de la Russie. Si sa situation et ses perspectives etaient moins critiques, l’Islam serait une moindre menace. On pourrait dire tout aussi justement qu…

  • Disraelia: Une Uchronie (1848-2008)

    Walter Laqueur, Isabelle HausserARTICLECommentaire2008

    En 1876, Charles Renouvier inventa le terme d'uchronie et publia un livre : Uchronie : l'utopie dans l'histoire. Esquisse historique du developpement de la civilisation europeenne tel qu'il n'a pas ete, tel qu'il aurait pu etre. Ce long titre dit bien le sens du mot. Il s'agit d'imaginer les consequences historiques de faits qui ne se sont pas produits mais qui auraient pu se produire. Max Weber, puis Raymond Aron ont montre que cette experimenta…

  • The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent

    Open AccessWalter LaqueurBOOKThe last days of Europe2007

    In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents. Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless. According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks.What happens when a falling birth-rate collides with uncontrolled immigration? The Last Days Of explores how a massive influx from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East has loaded Eu…

  • Fascism in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessWalter LaqueurARTICLESociety2007Cited by: 1

  • The changing face of antisemitism: From ancient times to the present day

    Walter Laqueur, Laqueur WalterBOOKThe changing face of antisemitism2006

    For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London, the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism, Walter Laqueur here offers both a comprehensive history of anti-Semitism as well as an illuminating look at the newest wave of this phenomenon. Laqueur begins with an invaluable historical account of this pernicious problem, tracing the evolution from a predominantly religious anti-Semitism-stretching back to the middle ages-to a r…

  • Europe in the 21st century

    Open AccessWalter LaqueurARTICLESociety2005Cited by: 1

  • Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know about Terrorism

    Lawrence D Freedman, Lawrence Freedman et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2003Cited by: 7

  • Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany

    Walter Laqueur, Walter LacqueurBOOKGeneration exodus2001

    This is a unique generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to surviv…

  • Confronting History: A Memoir

    George L Mosse, Walter LaqueurBOOKConfronting History2000

    Just two weeks before his death in January 1999, George L. Mosse, one of this century s great historians, finished writing his memoir, a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth century. Writing about the events of his life through a historian s lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century. This is a story told with the clarity, passion, and verve tha…

  • The Emergence of a Euro-America Radical Right

    Walter LaqueurARTICLENova Religio The Journal of…1999

    Book Review| October 01 1999 The Emergence of a Euro-America Radical Right The Emergence of a Euro-America Radical Right. By Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg. Rutgers University Press, 1998. 238 pages. $22.00 paper. Walter Laqueur Walter Laqueur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 3 (1): 172. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.3.1.172 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…

  • Books in review

    Open AccessArnold Kruger, Thelma Z Lavine et al.ARTICLESociety1999Cited by: 1

  • Books in review

    Open AccessWalter Laqueur, Thomas Straubhaar et al.ARTICLESociety1999

  • The new face of terrorism

    Walter LaqueurARTICLEThe Washington Quarterly1998Cited by: 4

  • The Arendt Cult: Hannah Arendt as Political Commentator

    Open AccessWalter LaqueurARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History1998Cited by: 3

    Hannah Arendt (1906-75) was a woman of many parts. She was philosopher, historian, sociologist and also journalist; she wrote poetry but also on technology; she had an interest in theology but also reviewed Kafka, Benjamin and Brecht. The following reflections do not refer to her life's work but merely one, albeit central, aspect that of a political analyst and commentator. No twentieth-century philosopher and political thinker has at the present…

  • The future of intelligence

    Open AccessWalter LaqueurARTICLESociety1998