Dr Ludlow studied for his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Oxford before moving on to St Antony's College Oxford to study for his D.Phil. He was then a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford until he joined LSE in 1998.
Dr Ludlow’s main research interests lie in the history of Western Europe since 1945, in particular the historical roots of the integration process and the development of the EU. He has just completed a monograph looking in some detail at Roy Jenkins’ presidency of the European Commission, which was published by Palgrave in April 2016. He also works on the Cold War, and in particular West-West relations during the East-West struggle. In the medium term he plans to write a detailed study of the development of transatlantic relations during the Cold War – and in particular of the way in which the Americans sought to balance their bilateral and multilateral dealings with their Western European allies, and the way in which the European allies jostled for the ear of the Americans. A first taste of this research appeared in his Journal of Cold War Studies article in 2013.
Dr Piers Ludlow teaches the following courses:
At undergraduate level:
HY206: The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989
HY238: The Cold War and European Integration
At Master's level:
HY400: Crisis Decision-Making in War and Peace, 1914-2003 (taught jointly with other faculty members)
HY411: European Integration in the Twentieth Century (taught jointly with other faculty members)
Dr Ludlow also supervises the following PhD students:
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Bastiaan Bouwman
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The Human Rights Engagement of the Ecumenical Movement, 1948-1980: The World Council of Churches, Britain, and the Netherlands
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Alexandre Dab
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Globalising national foreign policies: European Political Cooperation and the rise of a post-Cold War order, 1979-1981
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Benjamin Heckscher
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Coming Soon
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Corina Mavrodin
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Romanian foreign policy, 1956-1969
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Tommaso Milani
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'Les Belles Années du Plan': Mixed Economy and Supranational Integration in European Socialism, 1930-1945
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Eline van Ommen
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Nicaraguan and Western European Relations in the late 1970s and 1980s
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In June 2016, Dr Piers Ludlow won an LSE Excellence in Education Award with other members of the Department. Designed to support the School’s aspiration of creating ‘a culture where excellence in teaching is valued and rewarded on a level with excellence in research’ (LSE Strategy 2020), the Excellence in Education Awards are made, on the recommendations of Heads of Department, to staff who have demonstrated outstanding teaching contribution and educational leadership in their departments.
Dr Piers Ludlow has written three books: Dealing with Britain: The Six and the First UK Membership Application (Cambridge University Press, 1997) The European Community and the Crises of the 1960s: Negotiating the Gaullist Challenge (Routledge: 2006) Roy Jenkins and the European Commission Presidency, 1976-1980: At the Heart of Europe (Palgrave, 2016) and (jointly) edited five more, Les administrations nationales et la construction européenne: une approche historique (1919-1975) (Peter Lang, 2005); European Integration and the Cold War: Ostpolitik-Westpolitik, 1965-1973 (Routledge, 2007); Europe and the End of the Cold War: A Reappraisal (Routledge, 2008) Visions of the End of the Cold War in Europe, 1945-1990 (Berghahn, 2012) and The European Commission 1973-1986. History and Memories of an institution (Luxembourg: Publication Office of the EU, 2014).
Other recent publications include:
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‘Safeguarding British identity or betraying it? The role of British “tradition” in the Parliamentary Great Debate on EC membership, October 1971’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 53/1 January 2015;
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‘Jacques Delors (1985-1995): navigating the European stream at full flow’ in J. van der Harst and G. Voerman (eds.), An Impossible Job? The Presidents of the European Commission, 1958-2014 (John Harper, 2015);
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‘The New Cold War and the Expansion of the EC – A Nexus?’ in J. Laursen (ed) The Institutions and Dynamics of the European Community, 1973-83 (Nomos, 2015);
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‘Creating the expectation of a collective response: The impact of summitry on transatlantic relations’ in F. Romero and E. Mourlon-Druol (eds), International Summitry and Global Governance: the Rise of the European Council and the G7 (Routledge, 2014);
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‘The Real Years of Europe: US-West European Relations during the Ford Administration’, Journal of Cold War Studies, 15/3 Summer 2013;
List of publications on LSE Research Online