Igor Lukes
University Professor Professor of International Relations and History, BU Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
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Professor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia.
His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial (Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, the working papers series, 2006), Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu (Prague: Prostor, 1999), and Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930′s (New York: Oxford, 1996), which won the Boston Authors Club Award and the Kahn Award. Lukes is also a co-author and co-editor of The Munich Conference, 1938: Prelude to World War II (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (1990), and Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis (1990).
His scholarly articles have been published in eleven countries and in such periodicals as Journal of Contemporary History, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Historie a vojenstvi, Studies in Intelligence, and Slavic Review. Lukes is the recipient of the Central Intelligence Agency 2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature on Intelligence and the 2000 Stanley Z. Pech Prize for his article “The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence.”
He was the 2012 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Bitton National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His work has won the support of various other institutions, including Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, the Woodrow Wilson Center, IREX, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997 Lukes won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.
Lukes is an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England
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Communist Coup Confirmed Czechoslovak Reality But Was Wake-Up Call For West
February 24, 2018
Radio Praha Igor Lukes The event that sparked the crisis that led to the communist coup was the resignation of ‘democratic’ ministers from the hitherto uneasy coalition that had governed since the end of the war… Expert quote: “Regarding the resignation of the democratic ministers, there certainly may have been some confusion. I bet they […]
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The Rift Deepens With Poland and Turkey
August 30, 2017
Handelsblatt Global quoting Igor Lukes, Pardee School of Global Studies “Germany has been one of Europe’s strongest advocates for Poland, first when the country was trying to break free from the grip of the Soviet Union and later helping it gain admission to the European Union and benefit from the EU’s generous economic assistance…” Expert […]
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Current Time broadcasts into Russia, Eastern Europe
July 5, 2017
Washington Times quoting Igor Lukes, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “In a throwback to the Cold War, the U.S. government-run news channel Current Time recently began broadcasting into Russia and Eastern European counties to counteract the Kremlin’s unofficial propaganda arms RT and Sputnik…” Expert quote: “It’s high […]
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HISTORIAN IGOR LUKEŠ: EXILE WAS MUCH EASIER DURING THE COLD WAR
June 26, 2017
Radio Prague interviewing Igor Lukes, Pardee School of Global Studies/ College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences “Professor Igor Lukeš teaches at Boston University and has written extensively on modern Czech history, the Cold War and contemporary developments in Central and Eastern Europe…” Expert quote: “I was born in Letná, in Prague, the day […]
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What Trump’s flirtation with Putin signals to Europe
July 28, 2016
Christian Science Monitor Igor Lukes, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies Donald Trump issued an invitation to Russia to hack US State Department emails. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear his preference for Trump. But what does this relationship signal to the rest of the world?… Expert quote: “Mr. Putin […]
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Book sparks fresh debate over suspicious death of Jan Masaryk
February 20, 2016
Radio Prague Igor Lukes, College of Arts & Sciences, Pardee School of Global Studies A book issued at the end of last year has more than woken up a rather tired and threadbare debate about the death of former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk in 1948… Expert quote: “I think the main breakthrough of the […]
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France Wants U.S. & Russia to Join Forces
November 16, 2015
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Lost in Unification: Post-Cold War Europe East and West – Remembering the Berlin Wall
January 12, 2015
WBUR “World of Ideas” Igor Lukes, College of Arts & Sciences This week we have a panel-discussion titled “Lost in Unification: Post-Cold War Europe East and West – Remembering the Berlin Wall.” … Listen to audio of expert Igor Lukes
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Tarnished heroes: don’t dismiss them
December 31, 2014
The Conversation US By Igor Lukes, College of Arts & Sciences The release of a documentary film in the Czech Republic earlier this year caused much controversy. It is about a dissident named Pavel Wonka who fought against the totalitarian regime in Communist Czechoslovakia… View full article by expert Igor Lukes
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Prague’s velvet: wearing off 25 years later
December 4, 2014
The Conversation US By Igor Lukes, College of Arts & Sciences The United States had just gone through a bruising election, but in Congress Democratic and Republican leaders gathered to unveil the bust of Vaclav Havel, the playwright and first post-Communist Czech president and only the fourth non-American to be installed in this hallowed space… View […]
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