Professor Lorenz Luthi

Lorenz M. Lüthi studied in Switzerland, the United States, Germany, Russia, and China, and received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2003. Since joining the History Department at McGill University in 2003, he has been a fellow at the Olin Institute at Harvard University, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a visiting scholar at Eastern China Normal University in Shanghai, a visiting scholar at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto-Suhr-Institut/Free University in Berlin, and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Politics and International Relations/Australian National University in Canberra.

His research focuses on the history of post-1945 international relations, particularly in the socialist world and in the emerging decolonized world. His first, prize-winning book The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton, 2008) has been translated into Polish and Chinese. He is currently working on a large book project on the regional Cold Wars in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Lüthi has published on Chinese foreign relations, the Vietnam War, India, and European Cold War history.

His research interests in extra-European International Studies have seen him conduct research globally. His research on China, resulted in the the prize winning The Sino-Soviet Split, 1956-1966: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.  (Winner of the 2008 Furniss Award and of the 2010 Marshall Shulman Book Prize). His broader research agenda in Chinese Foreign Policy would also be pertinent to the Centre’s and Schools interest in China in the world.