A Brief Introduction to Research Fellow Zachary Shore

Zachary Shore has just joined the Institute of European Studies as one of its newest research fellows. Shore received his doctorate in modern European history from St. Antony's College, Oxford, where he wrote on foreign policy decision-making in Nazi Germany. His findings are illuminated in What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy (OUP, 2003), a book that the Library Journal has described as a "frightening yet fascinating story of the inner workings of Nazi Germany's diplomatic corps during the years leading up to World War II."

After Oxford, Shore served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and remained at Harvard to help teach an undergraduate course on international conflict in the modern era. Shore's students appreciated his enthusiasm for the subject: his singing songs of the 1940s in French, German, and Russian; his shrieking Hitler impersonations; and the games he invented to explain the basics of IPE and IR theory. Although this was only his first experience as an instructor he received the Derek Bok award for outstanding teaching.

Thanks to a fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations, Shore spent a year on the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State during one of the most fascinating times to be in government in recent American history. He began work on Monday, September 10th, 2001. "Well, at least the first day did go smoothly," said Shore. Granted the highest level of security clearance, he gained a window into the workings of America's foreign policy and intelligence system, observing from the inside how the war in Afghanistan was waged and the war against Iraq was planned.

Upon completion of his CFR fellowship, Shore performed research at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington D.C. Shortly thereafter, Director of IES Gerald D. Feldman invited him to travel west to work as a Research Fellow here at Cal.

At IES, Shore and IES Deputy Director Beverly Crawford will be organizing a lecture series entitled, "Beyond the Gulf: U.S.-European Relations After Iraq", a year-long series focusing on Europe's strategic significance in the 21st century. He will also be pursuing research on Europe's Muslims, examining how the European states are integrating their various Muslim populations.

Zach will be roaming the halls of Moses through May of 2005. To learn more about him, go to the IES Visiting Scholars page.