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Michael F. Palo, PhD

Associate Professor of History 

Tel. +32 2 629 28 21 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: mpalo@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Modern Europe, 1648-1848
  • Modern Europe, 1848-Present
  • History of the Middle East
  • British History Since 1815
  • Postwar Europe
  • History of Conflict since 1914
  • U.S. Foreign Policy since 1898
  • Evolution of the Intern. system, 1815-1945

Education:

University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)
PhD -- 1978
Champaign-Urbana, Ill. USA

Queens College of the City Univeristy of New York (CUNY)
Master of Arts in European History – 1969
New York, New York, USA

Queens College of the City University of New York (CUNY)
Bachelor’s of Arts in History – 1966
New York, New York, USA

Research Interests:

Currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled "The Politics and Diplomacy of Belgian War Aims in Africa, 1914-1919".”

Various articles on neutrality drawn from "Continuity and Change in the History of Belgian Foreign Policy: The Problem of Neutrality, 1839-1940"

Another project currently underway is a textbook covering the interplay between history and international relations theory between 1815 and 1945.

Select Publications:
Book review of Henri Haag's Le comte Charles de Broqueville, Ministre d'Etat, et les luttes pour le pouvoir (1910-1940) 2 vols (Louvain-la-Neuve: Collège Erasme; Bruxelles: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1990) for the Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis.

“The Question of Neutrality and Belgium's Security Dilemma during the First World War: The Search for a Politically Acceptable Solution,”, July 2000 issue of the Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine/Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis (Ghent).

Languages:

English and French

Nationality:

American