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Biography
Michael Haltzel is a former U.S. government official, scholar, and commentator on international relations. Currently Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC., he served from 1994 to 2005 as Democratic Staff Director of the Committee on European Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and European foreign policy advisor to U.S. Vice President (then-Senator) Joseph R. Biden, Jr. In these capacities he was a key figure in two rounds of NATO enlargement and in Congressional action in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

In 2009-10 Haltzel returned temporarily to government service as head of U.S. delegations to three review conferences of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw, Copenhagen, and Vienna.

The author of Der Abbau der deutschen ständischen Selbstverwaltung in den Ostseeprovinzen Russlands 1855-1905 (Marburg, 1977), he is coauthor, editor, or coeditor of nine other books. His op-ed articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and other major newspapers in the United States and Europe, and he appears regularly on U.S. and European radio and television.

His other previous positions include Chief of the European Division of the Library of Congress, Director of West European Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Vice President for Academic Affairs of Longwood University (Virginia), and Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin.

Haltzel received a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in history from Yale University, and an M.A. (Soviet Studies) and Ph.D. (History), both from Harvard University. He has been decorated by seven countries of the European Union: Austria, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Sweden.

Books authored

 * Der Abbau der deutschen ständischen Selbstverwaltung in den Ostseeprovinzen Russlands, 1855-1905 (Marburg/Lahn: Marburger Ostforschungen, Band 37; 1977).
 * Russification in the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914, co-author (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981).

Books edited

 * Library of Congress European Collections: an Illustrated Guide, editor (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1994).
 * The Global Ramifications of the French Revolution, co-editor (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Available as an eBook: http://www.ebooks-share.net/michael-haltzel/
 * Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation, co-editor (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
 * Liberty/Liberté: The American and French Experiences, co-editor (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
 * Portugal: Ancient Country, Young Democracy, co-editor (Washington, D.C.: Wilson Center Press, 1990).
 * Between the Blocs: Problems and Prospects for Europe's Neutral and Nonaligned States, co-editor (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
 * Spain in the 1980s: The Democratic Transition and a New International Role, co-editor (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1987).
 * Finnish-American Academic and Professional Exchanges: Analyses and Reminiscences, co-editor (Espoo: Weilin + Göös, 1983).

Selected Recent Articles and Interviews

 * “Dealing with Russia,” with Denis Corboy and William Courtney, International Herald Tribune, June 21, 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/opinion/dealing-with-russia.html?ref=global&_r=0
 * “The shaky state of Bosnia,” Washington Post, August 31, 2012: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democracy-in-bosnia-threatens-to-unravel/2012/08/30/204a1b36-f14c-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html
 * “The Balkan Summer of 2011,” Center for Transatlantic Relations, Washington, D.C., June 29, 2011: http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/bin/i/r/mh_Balkan_Summer_of_2011.pdf.  In Bosnian translation, “Balkansko ljeto 2011,” BH Dani, (July 8, 2011), pp. 21-23: http://www.bhdani.com/default.asp?kat=txt&broj_id=734&tekst_rb=6
 * “Razmyshleniia o novoi arkhitekture evropeiskoi bezopasnosti,” Mir peremen (The World of Transformations)(Moscow), No. 3/2009, pp. 142-146: http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/bin/s/y/3.2009MH_Mir_Peremen.pdf
 * “O Irã está assustado com Barack Obama,” O Globo (Rio de Janeiro), November 21, 2008, p. 30.
 * “Rescue Mission in Kosovo,” Akron Beacon Journal, October 17, 2008, Editorial, Commentary page:  http://www.ohio.com/editorial/commentary/31152464.html
 * “Schein und Heiligkeit,” Die Presse (Vienna), January 3, 2004, Spectrum weekend section, p. 4. English translation in the AICGS OBSERVER, January 23, 2004: www.aicgs.org/c/haltzelc.shtml