Hans Lukas Kieser

Hans-Lukas Kieser is an honorary associate professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a retired professor from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. An independent historian, he is the author or editor of numerous books on the Modern Middle East, among them Turkey’s Violent Formation: New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2024), When Democracy Died: The Middle East’s Enduring Peace of Lausanne (2023), Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide (2018) and Nearest East: American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East (2010). His I.B. Tauris Handbook of the Late Ottoman Empire: History and Legacy, co-edited with Khatchig Mouradian and featuring contributions from forty-five authors, is due to be published in autumn 2025.