Twitter changed my life for good. But the platform I loved no longer exists.
The Guardian, 8 January 2024
In Europe, we can’t help laughing at David Cameron’s return – but we welcome it, too.
The Guardian, 15 November 2023
Why did it take a murderous war in Ukraine for Germany to wake up to the threat from Russia?
The Guardian, 19 June 2023
For Hamburg, devastated by allied bombing, King Charles’ visit is so much more than a photo-op
The Guardian, 30 March 2023
Whisper it, but the UK and the EU are starting to mend their broken relationship
The Guardian, 18 November 2022
Shutting down Parliament is worse than a coup. It’s a mistake.
Foreign Policy, 29 August 2019
Merkel’s retreat is a major shift for Germany, not for Brexit
The UK in a Changing Europe, 1 November 2018
Lost in translation: Brexit and the Anglo-German relationship
History & Policy, 10 January 2017
Margaret Thatcher: The critical architect of European Integration
The UK in a Changing Europe, 4 May 2016
Britain’s ‘return East of Suez’: A historical perspective
The Global and Imperial Forum, 10 May 2016
Moving forward looking back: Anniversaries, remembrance and the Anglo-German relationship in 2014
The British Scholar Society, January 2015
Imperialism and the Global Anglo-American Relationship
The British Scholar Society, October 2013
The Suez Crisis – A Turning Point for the End of Empire in the Middle East?
The British Scholar Society, February 2013
The British Government, Arab Nationalism and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958
The British Scholar Society, October 2012
“With Europe, but not of it” – An Exclusively British Attitude?
The British Scholar Society, June 2012
The United Arab Emirates – A Product of British Imperialism?
The British Scholar Society, January 2012
Interviews
Die Blase ist geplatzt. Interview with Tagesspiegel, 25 October 2022
Helene argued that it is worth taking the long view on UK-German relations, especially in light of the war in Ukraine. The populist bubble in the UK has burst with the failure and resignation of Liz Truss. Change won’t be imminent, but it is coming.
Die Einheit des Vereinigten Königreichs ist in Gefahr. Interview with Die Presse, 29 January 2021
Helene argued that the end of the Brexit process does not equal the end of British populism.
Why is German public reluctant to back UK over ‘Russian’ nerve agent attack? Interview with The Local, 6 April 2018
Jörg Luyken of The Local interviewed Helene about German attitudes regarding the Skripal affair. Helene argued that German reluctance to back the UK had less to do with the Anglo-German relationship, and more with a historically deeply embedded longing to get along with Russia, as well as a general reluctance to face up to the harsh realities of international affairs.
Cameron hat ein verantwortungsloses Spiel gespielt. Interview with Spiegel Online, 24 June 2016
On the day following the Brexit Referendum, Helene gave a detailed interview to Spiegel Online about David Cameron’s motives for calling the referendum, the historical origins of British Euroscepticism, and the likely consequences of Britain’s vote to leave the EU.
Book Reviews
Book review of Philip Stephens Britain Alone , in: Financial Times, 5 February 2021
Britain Alone. The Path from Suez to Brexit (Faber, 2001)
Book review of R. Gerald Hughes, The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement
British Foreign Policy since 1945 (New York: Bloomsbury Academic 2014), in The American Historical Review, Vol. 120, No. 2, April 2015, pp. 719-720.
Geschichte(n) der Globalisierung:
Historische Perspektiven im 20. Jahrhundert. Tagungsbericht für H-net über das 5. Doktorandenforum des Zentrums für Zeitgeschichte in Potsdam am 13.-14.4.2007.
Academic Articles
‘A Watershed in our Relations with the Trucial States’: Great Britain’s policy to prevent the opening of an Arab League office in the Persian Gulf in 1965
Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, January 2011, pp. 1-24.
The Kuwait Crisis 1961 and its Consequences for Great Britain’s Persian Gulf Policy
British Scholar Journal, Vol. 2, No.1, September 2009, pp. 75-96.
Die irakische Revolution 1958 – Wendepunkt für Großbritanniens Nahost-Politik?
Imke Sturm-Martin/ Jan Hecker-Stampehl (eds.), Europa im Blick. Westeuropäische Perspektiven im 20. Jahrhundert. Festschrift für Clemens A. Wurm (Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovač 2007), pp. 47-58.