Kiran Klaus Patel

[3] From 2011 to 2019 he held the Chair of European and Global History at Maastricht University following a professorship at the European University Institute in Florence from 2007 to 2011 (Joint Chair; Department of History and Civilisation & Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies).

He was visiting professor at the London School of Economics and at Sciences Po Paris.

His book, The New Deal: A Global History (Princeton University Press), which situates the role of the US during the 1930s and 1940s in a comparative and transnational context.

The American Historical Review praised it, arguing that "Patel's story will become the definitive account“ and the monograph won the WHA Bentley Book Prize, awarded by the World History Association.

[4] Patel's Project Europe: A History (Cambridge University Press 2020; first published in German in 2018) challenged the narrative that the European Union was a successful force for peace from its inception.