Liliane Stadler
AJI Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography
Liliane Stadler is an Ax:son Johnson Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Her research revolves around the role of permanently neutral states within NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) after 1994.
Having published her first book on the role of Switzerland’s neutral good offices in the context of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, the aim of her second book project is to understand how competing interpretations of neutrality have evolved in relation to the Transatlantic security structures of the post-Cold War era.
Prior to joining the Henry A. Kissinger Center in the summer of 2024, Liliane was a lecturer in History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She completed her DPhil in History at the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s) in 2021 and her MPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford (Lady Margaret Hall) in 2016. She holds a Master of Arts (Hons.) from the University of St. Andrews.
Liliane is a review editor at H-Diplo and a section editor at the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Cold War.
Publications
Academic Publications
Between Neutrality and Solidarity: Swiss Good Offices in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992. Leiden: Brill, 2024.
‘Sacha Zala et al. (Hg.), Diplomatische Dokumente der Schweiz 1992 (Book Review).’ Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte 73(2023), 429-431. DOI: 10.24894/2296-6013.00134.
'Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan (Book Review).' Cold War History 24:1(2023), 157-160. DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2022.2158711.
‘The Transfer of Soviet Prisoners of War from Afghanistan to Switzerland, 1982-1986.’ Contemporary European History (2022). DOI:10.1017/S0960777322000583.
‘The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great Power Rivalry Today (Book Review),’ Cold War History 23:1(2022), 212-215. DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2022.2077988.
‘The Transfer of Soviet Prisoners of War from Afghanistan to Switzerland, 1982-1984.’ CWIHP Working Paper Series (December 2020).
‘The Persistence of Neutrality in Post-Cold War Europe.’ In Engaged Neutrality: An Evolved Approach to the Cold War, edited by Heinz Gärtner, 73-102. London: Lexington Books, 2017.
Martin Meyer (ed.) with Liliane Stadler. Die Welt Verstehen: 35 Beiträge aus der Geschichte des Schweizerischen Instituts für Auslandforschung. Zürich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2013.
Public Outreach
‘Die Neutralität ist dynamisch.’ Foraus Blog. 14 October 2024. https://www.foraus.ch/posts/die-neutralitaet-ist-dynamisch/.
‘The Year 1991 in Swiss Diplomatic Documents.’ Wilson Center Sources and Methods Blog. 7 December 2022. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/year-1991-swiss-diplomatic-documents.
‘The Year 1990 in Swiss Diplomatic Documents.’ Wilson Center Sources and Methods Blog. 1 June 2021. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/year-1990-swiss-diplomatic-documents.
‘Winston Churchill, Radio Free Kabul and Soviet POWs in Neutral Switzerland, 1982-1984.’ Wilson Center Sources and Methods Blog. 28 August 2020. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/winston-churchill-radio-free-kabul-and-soviet-pows-neutral-switzerland-1982-1984.
‘Ken Clarke’s Kind of Blue.’ OxPol Blog. 6 December 2016. https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/ken-clarkes-kind-blue/.