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Research
Two broad themes addressing the cultural underpinnings of international relations inform Michaela Hoenicke Moore’s research and writing. These are the dynamics between American political culture and foreign policy, on the one hand, and European responses to ‘ America’ as a model and a world power, on the other hand. Her first book Know Your Enemy: The American Debate on Nazism, 1933-1945 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) explored the political and intellectual context in which American popular and official conceptions of Nazi Germany were developed. This inquiry into the intellectual side of the war effort shows how conflicting explanations of ‘the German problem’ shaped American warfare and postwar planning, and even laid important foundations for subsequent international scholarship on National Socialism.
More recently Michaela has examined how German political journalists refashioned their private and political identities after 1945 and how they used America as a key concept in the political-intellectual transition from dictatorship to democracy. This project forms part of a larger exploration of transatlantic debates on American power after World War Two.
Currently she is interested in the dramatic reconfiguration of American nationalism after 1945 and the role that a heavily edited memory of World War Two played in that process. Her research examines postwar patriotism as an expression of national identity relevant for the formulation and legitimization of cold war foreign policy.
Michaela received her PhD from the University of North Carolina in 1998. Before joining the department in 2008, Michaela taught US history at the Kennedy Institute of the Free University in Berlin and York University in Toronto, as well as transatlantic history at the University of North Carolina and Southern Illinois University. She also worked as a senior fellow in US Foreign Policy at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.
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