CHIR is an international network of scholars from over 30 countries. Its mission is to advance the study of the history of international relations through the cross-fertilization of ideas within the discipline.

CHIR links different disciplinary subfields and approaches to the study of international history and provides an open forum for the communication of ideas and information between scholars.

To this extent, CHIR is ideally placed to provide a link between separate national organizations dedicated to the study of the history of international relations.

 

We are fourteen Bureau members. (from November 2022 —    )

Badel, Laurence,                  France, 　　President

Lami, Giulia,                         Italy,      　　Secretary-General

Canavero, Alfredo,               Italy,

Chauhan, Pradeep Singh,   India

Conze, Eckart,                       Germany, 　Vice-President

Dolores, Elizalde,                 Spain,    　　Vice-President

Gomez, Lorenzo Delgado,  Spain,

Haba, Kumiko,                     Japan,

Han, Jae Yeong,                  South Korea,

Preda, Dumitru,                   Romania,

Sasaki, Takuya,                    Japan,

Sanz-Diaz, Carlos,               Spain, 　　 Treasurer

Schulz, Matthias,                 Switzerland

Vecino, Miguel Angel,        Spain

 

CHIR Bureau Members

 

C.V.

Professor Dr. Laurence Badel holds the position of Full Professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where she serves in both the Department of History and the Pierre Renouvin Institut-UMR SIRICE. Furthermore, she extends her scholarly contributions as a Visiting Professor at the Vienna School of International Studies.

Professor Badel’s main fields of interests lie in French, European and international relations from the 19th to the 21st century. Her current research topics are: Women, diplomacy and international relations ; cities diplomacy ; and epistemology of history of international relations.

Her newest book is : Écrire l’histoire des relations internationales – Genèses, concepts, perspectives XVIIIe-XXIe siècle, Paris, Armand Colin, 2024. She also recently published Diplomaties européennes, XIXe-XXIe siècle, Paris, Sciences Po. Les Presses, 2021 ; and recently edited Histoire et relations internationales. Pierre Renouvin, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle et la naissance d’une discipline universitaire (dir.), Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2020.

She also recently released following articles: « Auxiliary” jobs? French Women’s multiple pathways into diplomacy, 1900-1947», Diplomacy and Statecraft, forthcoming in 2024 ; « Les enjeux de la ‘diplomatie féministe’. Entre représentation de l’État et promotion des droits », AFRI 2023 – Volume XXIV ; « De la capitale au forum. Fonctions, usages, hiérarchies de la capitalité diplomatique (XIXe-XXIe siècles) », Revue historique, 2022/3, n° 703 ; « Diplomacy and the History of International Relations : Redefining a Conflictual Relationship », Diplomatica I (2019), 33-39 ; « Economic Diplomacy », Encyclopedia of Diplomacy, Gordon Martel (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2018. Forthcoming: 1919. The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order (with Eckart Conze and Axel Droeber)

Professor Laurence Badel is member of the Editorial Board of Diplomacy and Statecraft, Relations internationales, Monde(s). Histoire, espaces, relations, Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy. Finally, she is also a member of the academic advisory committee of French Diplomatic Archives ; the President of IHRIC, Institute of History of Contemporary International Relations.

Mailing address
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Institut Pierre Renouvin 17, rue de la Sorbonne   F – 75005 Paris
badel@univ-paris1.fr

 

Prof. Dr. Eckart Conze  University of Marburg (Germany) is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and Co-Director of the International Research and Documentation Centre for War Crimes Trials (ICWC) at the University of Marburg (Germany). He held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Toronto, Cambridge, Bologna, Utrecht and Jerusalem. His main areas of research are the history of international relations (19th to 21st centuries), the history of elites and the aristocracy, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the history of security. His book publications include: Das Amt und die Vergangenheit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik, (2010) (with N. Frei, P. Hayes and M. Zimmermann); more recently: Geschichte der Sicherheit. Entwicklung – Themen – Perspektiven (2017) and Die große Illusion. Versailles 1919 und die Neuordnung der Welt (2018). His latest book is: Schatten des Kaiserreichs. Die Reichsgründung 1871 und ihr schwieriges Erbe (2020). Forthcoming: 1919. The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order (with Laurence Badel and Axel Droeber).

 

Professor, Dr. Kumiko Haba (Aoyama Gakuin University, Kyoto University) is President of the Asia-Pacific Region of the Association for International Studies (ISA)(2021-2024), President of the EUSA Asia-Pacific Tokyo Conference (2017). She served as ISA Vice-President (2016-17) and ISA Asia-Pacific Vice-President (2018-21), Director of the Global Institute of International Relations (IGIR) (2016- ).  She was a member of the Science Council of Japan (2011-17) and an associate member of the Science Council of Japan (2017-23) and was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2011-12), USA, the European University Institute (EUI), Italy (2008), the University of Paris. (2004), France, the University of London (1996-97), UK, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1995-96).

She is interested in the global role of Small States, Minorities, Immigrants, and the Global South in International Relations. She started researching Minorities in East European countries and is currently researching Conflicts and Peacebuilding over Borders in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Peacebuilding and Economic Development of the Global South and Minorities. Her work focuses on Immigrants, Refugees and Minority issues, as well as Cold War and Peacebuilding.  She wrote 73 books, including 17 English books, which she is the editor and co-editors.

Her recent books are: 100 Years of World Wars: How to Create a New World Order?  Haba, Canavero, Mizobata Eds, Springer, 2022, Brexit and After, Haba & Holland Eds, Springer, 2021.  She is researching Regional Collaboration Europe and Asia: esp. China, India, and ASEAN countries, and collaboration with the Global South and Minorities are the key issue to Peacebuilding. By considering and analyzing Minority, immigrants in Asia and the Global South, we would like to correct Disparities and Conflicts, and lead to Peace and Prosperity.

 

Professor Dr. Carlos Sanz-Diaz(  University)   is…..

 

Dr. Jae Yeong Han‘s academic and professional path began with a BA and MA from Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, Korea, focusing on English Literature and Area Studies. Her career progressed at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea (2007-2008), where she deeply investigated the Korean War’s lasting impact. After earning a PhD in History from Université Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2014, she dedicated herself to independent research on contemporary Korean history and the collective memory of the Korean War. Currently, Dr. Han applies her vast expertise at the Korean Delegation to the OECD, consistently enhancing her contributions to Korean Studies, melding historical analysis with global significance. Her articles are: « Les générations d’après-guerre et la réécriture de l’histoire de la guerre de Corée », Cahiers d’histoire, Volume 37, numéro 2, hiver 2020, p. 67–91; « Gastronomie coréenne, élément des relations internationales », Bulletin de l’Institut Pierre Renouvin 2019/2 (N°50), p. 61-74;  « Mémoires de guerre et guerre de mémoires dans les relations entre les deux Corées », La guerre de Corée et ses enjeux stratégiques de 1950 à nos jours (sous la direction de Pierre Journoud), Paris : L’Harmattan, 2014, p. 341-345.

 

Miguel Ángel Vecino is Degree in Law (5 years) (U. C.) Master in Constitutional Theory (CEC). Master Constitutional History (CEC). Ecole Practique d’Hautes Etudes (5 years. Sorbonne-Panthèon). Enseignant (CEILA. Sorbonne). Diplomat. Fonctionnaire Conseil Ministers UE. Director of Aid Programmes of UE for Ex-Communist European Countries. Member of I.S.A. and Asociación de Política Exterior.  I have participated in four books, and published more than 200 articles in press and specialized reviews, and participated in more than 40 round tables and lectures. Last one “The Virtual Era” in Litua. Issue XXV 2023.

 

 

Past Bureau Members (  -2022)

 

＜Obituary＞

Prof. Brunello Vigezzi  (November 2022)

Honorary President of  Commission of History of International Relations

Dear colleagues,
As Secretary General of CHIR, together with the former Secretary General Alfredo Canavero, I am sorry to communicate the passing of prof. Brunello Vigezzi, Honorary President of our Commission.
Together with prof. René Girault, Brunello Vigezzi had founded the Commission of the History of International Relations and had been its Secretary General (1985-1995) and then President (1995-2005).

Vigezzi was born in Brezzo di Bedero on 11 July 1930 and graduated in Literature at the University of Milan in 1955. He then attended the “Benedetto Croce” Istituto di Studi Storici in Naples, directed by Federico Chabod. From 1956 to 1962 he coordinated the specialization seminar in the history of international relations at the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan. He then taught History of Political Doctrines, Contemporary History and Modern History at the University of Milan. At the same university, he directed the Institute of Medieval and Modern History from 1980 to 1989, founding the Center for Foreign Policy Studies and Public Opinion, which he directed from 1981 to 2005.
He was a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Benedetto Croce” Istituto di Studi Storici in Naples, of the Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) of Milan, of the Commission for the publication of Italian Diplomatic Documents and of the Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici.

Among his works, we can remember:
Pietro Giannone riformatore e storico, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1960
L’Italia di fronte alla Prima guerra mondiale. L’Italia neutrale, Ricciardi, Milano-Napoli, 1966.
Da Giolitti a Salandra, Vallecchi, Firenze, 1969.
Giolitti e Turati, un incontro mancato, Ricciardi, Milano-Napoli, 1976.
Il Partito Socialista Italiano, le riforme e la rivoluzione 1898-1915, Vallecchi, Firenze, 1981.
Politica estera e opinione pubblica in Italia dall’Unità ai giorni nostri. Orientamenti degli studi e prospettive della ricerca, Jaca Book, Milano, 1991.
l’Italia unita e le sfide della politica estera.  Dal Risorgimento alla Repubblica, Unicopli, Milano, 1997.
The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics (1954-1985) – the Rediscovery of History, Unicopli, Milano, 2005.
La forza di Clio – un itinerario storiografico  (1955-2005), Unicopli, Milano, 2010.
Yours sincerely,   Giulia Lami,  General Secretary of CHIR

 

  • Forthcoming: 1919. The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order (with Laurence Badel, Eckart Conze and Axel Droeber)