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Michael De Groot

Assistant Professor, International Studies

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mbdegroo@iu.edu
Department:
International Studies
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IU Bloomington

Research Summary

I am broadly interested in the international, diplomatic, and economic history of the twentieth century. My current research focuses on economic statecraft and the link between political economy and security during the late Cold War. Before coming to IU, I held fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and the University of Virginia.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, 2018
  • M.A., History, University of Virginia, 2014
  • B.A., History with honors, Stanford University, 2011

Regions of Interest

  • Russia
  • Europe
  • United States

Research Topics

  • Russian and U.S. foreign relations
  • International history
  • Geopolitics of energy
  • Political Economy

Representative Publications

  • Disruption: Welfare Empires, Economic Statecraft, and the End of the Cold War (under contract with Cornell University Press)
  • “The West German Energy Dilemma and Soviet Natural Gas,” in Wolfgang Mueller and Peter Svik, eds., Technological Innovation, Globalization and the Cold War: A Transnational History (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Global Reaganomics: Budget Deficits, Capital Flows, and the International Economy,” in Jonathan R. Hunt and Simon Miles, eds., The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021), 84-102
  • “The Soviet Union, CMEA, and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s,” Journal of Cold War Studies 22, no. 4 (2020): 4-30
  • “Western Europe and the Collapse of Bretton Woods,” International Journal 74, no. 2 (2019): 282-300—winner of the Marvin Gelber Prize
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