Mogens Pelt

Short presentation

Topics of Research

The Eastern Mediterranean and Southeast Europe

The Transition from Empire to Nation State in the Ottoman Lands

 ’The Eastern Question’ and its Bearings on the Contemporary Middle East and Southeast Europe

The Establishment and Development of the Greek Nation State

The Establishment and Development of the Turkish Nation State

Interaction between Trade and Politics, in particular International Economic Relation in the Context of de-Globalization

The History of Globalization from ca. 1850

Co-director with Catharina Raudvere of the reseach centre Many Roads in Modernity

CV

Associate Professor in International History since 2006

Since 2012 co-directing with Professor Catharina Raudvere the Centre ‘Many Roads in Modernity’ at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

2008-9 Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University

2007-8 Attached to the Commission established by the Danish Parliament to Investigate the Danish Security Intelligence Service (PET)

2005-7 Member of he working-group of the Volkswagen Foundation funded international net-work Captive States, Divided Societies, Political Institutions of Southeastern Europe in Historical Comparative Perspective (see www.cap-lmu.de/projekte/fge/captivestates/index.php.)

 1999 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University  

 1993-1996 Deputy-director at the Danish Institute at Athens

 He is co-editor of Studies in 20^th and 21^st Century European History