Klaus W. Larres is a German-born historian and political scientist, currently the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina, and also an author.^[1] Larres was educated at the University of Cologne and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He is currently a Global Europe & Kissinger China Institute Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.^[2]

Along with previously holding the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at Library of Congress,^[3] he is a member of the Royal Historical Society, International Institute for Strategic Studies and American Academy of Political and Social Science.^[4][5][6] He also formerly served as a senior policy advisor at the German Embassy in Beijing.^[7]

Before moving to the United States, Larres spent almost 18 years in the United Kingdom.^[8]

• Politik der Illusionen. Churchill, Eisenhower und die deutsche Frage 1945–1955. Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-36320-6.
• The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949. Politics, society and economy before and after unification. London 1996.
• Germany since unification. The domestic and external consequences. Basingstoke 1998. ISBN 0-333-64981-8.
• Churchill's Cold War. The Politics of Personal Diplomacy. Yale 2006, ISBN 0-300-09438-8.
• The Cold War after Stalin's death. A missed opportunity for peace? (with Kenneth Osgood) Lanham 2006, ISBN 0-7425-5451-1.
• A companion to Europe since 1945. Oxford 2009, ISBN 1-405-10612-3.