Matthew Specter

Job title: 
Senior Fellow
Department: 
Institute of European Studies
Bio/CV: 

Matthew Specter (PhD, Duke) writes on 20th century European, American and global intellectual history, especially the history of German political thought and the history of IR theory. A former tenured Associate Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University, he is currently a Lecturer in History at Santa Clara University and Associate Editor of History and Theory. He is the author of Habermas: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge 2010) and The Atlantic Realists: Empire and International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States (Stanford 2022)

Research interests: 
  • Foreign Policy 
  • Global/Transnational 
  • Governance/Democracy 
  • Human Rights/Norms 
  • Security/Defense