Peter Baldwin

Peter Baldwin (born December 22, 1956) is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles and a philanthropist.

Education

• PhD History Department, Harvard University, 1986
• MA History Department, Harvard University, 1980
• BA Philosophy Department, History Department, Yale University, 1978

Career

• 2014- Global Distinguished Professor, NYU
• 1999- Professor, History Department, UCLA
• 1992-99: Associate Professor, History Department, UCLA
• 1990-92: Assistant Professor, History Department, UCLA
• 1986-90: Assistant Professor, History Department, Harvard University

Affiliations

• Council for European Studies, Columbia University, Steering Committee 1996-2000
• Arcadia, Co-founder and chairman of Donor and Advisory Boards, 2001-
• Royal Historical Society, Fellow, 2002-
• Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund, Sweden, Foreign Member, 2003-
• Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark, Honorary Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, 2005-10
• Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Trustee, 2009-
• Trakya University Journal of Social Science, Turkey, Consulting Editorial Board, 2010-18
• University of Bielefeld, Virtual Faculty, Excellence Initiative, “Communicating Comparisons,” 2011-12
• New Studies in European History, Cambridge University Press, Editorial Board, 2004-
• Harvard University Library, Visiting Committee, 2014 –
• National Library of Israel, Global Forum, 2014-
• Authors Alliance, Advisory Board, 2014–
• New York Public Library, Board of Trustees, 2015–
• Bard College Berlin, Board of Governors, 2015-
• American Council of Learned Societies, Board, 2016-
• Wikimedia Endowment, Advisory Board, 2016-
• History News Network, Board, 2017-20
• Center for Jewish History, Board, 2017–

Publications

Books

• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law,and the State across Three Thousand Years, forthcoming, MIT Press, 2021.

Chinese translation, Sanlian Press, forthcoming.

• The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle (Princeton University Press, 2014; paperback edition 2016; open access edition 2017).

Chinese translation, Communication University of China Press, 2019.

• The Narcissism of Minor Differences: How America and Europe Are Alike (Oxford University Press, 2009; paperback edition, 2011).

French translation, Markus Haller, Geneva, 2014.

Chinese translation, Sanlian Press, forthcoming 2021.

• Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (University of California Press, Berkeley, and the Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, 2005; paperback edition, 2007).

Chinese translation, National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan, 2018.

PRC edition, Sanlian Press, forthcoming 2021.

• Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press, 1999; paperback edition, 2005).

Chinese translation, Commercial Press, Beijing, forthcoming.

• The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State, 1875-1975 (Cambridge University Press, 1990; paperback edition, 1992).

Spanish translation, Madrid, 1992.

Chinese translation, Sanlian Press, 2021.

Ch3 republished in Nicholas Deakin et al., eds., Welfare and the State: Critical Concepts in Sociology (Routledge, 2004).

Introduction republished in Stephan Leibfried and Steffen Mau, eds., Welfare States: Construction, Deconstruction, Reconstruction (3 vols, Edward Elgar, 2008); in David Byrne, ed, Social Exclusion: Critical ConceptsinSociology, (4 vols, Routledge,2008); in Peter Alcock and Martin Powell, eds., Welfare Theory and Development(3 vols, Sage, 2010)

• Reworking the Past: Hitler, the Holocaust and the Historians' Debate, edited with an introduction (Beacon Press, 1990)

Articles

• “Why are Universities Open Access Laggards?” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, 63 (2018).
• “Smug Britannia: The Dominance of (the) English in Current History Writing and Its Pathologies,”(with a response by Richard J. Evans, and a riposte in turn to that) Contemporary European History, 20, 3 (2011).
• “America: A Reality Check,” Kurt Almqvist and Alexander Linklater, eds., On the Idea of America: Perspectives from the Engelsberg Seminar 2009(Stockholm, 2010).
• “Globalization and the Welfare State,” in Benjamin Z. Kedar, ed., Explorations in Comparative History(Jerusalem, 2009).
• “Can There Be a Democratic Public Health? Fighting AIDS in the Industrialized World,” in Susan Gross Solomon, Patrick Zylberman and Lion Murard, eds., Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century (University of Rochester Press, 2008).
• “Beyond Weak and Strong: Rethinking the State in Comparative Policy History,” Journal of Policy History, 17, 1 (2005); also published in Julian E. Zelizer, ed., New Directions in Policy History (College Park, 2005).
• “The Victorian State in Comparative Perspective,” in Peter Mandler, ed., Liberty and Authority in Victorian England (Oxford University Press, 2006).
• “Comparing and Generalizing: Why All History is Comparative, Yet No History is Sociology,”in Deborah Cohen and Maura O’Connor, eds., Comparison and History: Europe in Cross-National and Comparative Perspective(Routledge, 2004).
• “The Return of the Coercive State? Behavioral Control in Multicultural Society,” inT.V. Paul et al., The Nation-State in Question (Princeton University Press, 2003).
• "Welfare State and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization," in Andreas Føllesdal and PeterKoslowski, eds., Restructuring the Welfare State: Ethical Issues of Social Security inan International Perspective (Springer-Verlag, 1997).
• "The Past Rise of Social Security: Historical Trends and Patterns" in Herbert Giersch, ed. Reforming the Welfare State (Springer-Verlag, 1997).
• "Can We Define a European Welfare State Model?" in Bent Greve, ed., Comparative Welfare Systems: The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 1996); revised version, “Der europäische Wohlfahrtsstaat: Konstruktionsversuche in der zeitgenössischen Forschung,” in Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 49, 1 (2003).
• "Welfare and social security, promotion of," in Seymour Martin Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1996).
• "Beveridge in the Longue Durée," in John Ditch et al., eds., Beveridge and Social Security: An International Retrospective (Oxford University Press, 1994). Also published in a slightly different version in the International Social Security Review, 45, 1-2 (1992).
• "Die sozialen Ursprünge des Wohlfahrtsstaates," Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 36, 11/12 (November/December 1990).
• "Les classes moyennes et l'Etat-protecteur de l'après-guerre: Le cas français et le cas allemand," in Mission Interministérielle Recherche Expérmentation, Les comparaisons internationales des politiques et des systemes de sécurité sociale: Colloque de recherche, (Paris, nd); reprinted as "Class Interests and the Postwar Welfare State in Europe: AHistorical Perspective," International Social Security Review, 3 (1990).
• "Social Interpretations of Nazism: Reviving a Tradition,"Journal of Contemporary History, 25, 1 (January 1990).
• "Class, Interest and the Welfare State: A Reply to Sven E. Olsson," International Review of Social History, 3 (1989); Swedish translation in Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, 50 (n.d.).
• "Postwar Germany in the Longue Durée," German Politics and Society, 16 (Spring 1989).
• "The Scandinavian Origins of the Social Interpretation of the Welfare State," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 31, 1 (1989), reprinted in Ulla Maija Perttulla and Jorma Sipilä, eds., Social Policy in Scandinavia: Essays in History, Gender and Future Changes(University of Tampere, 1996) and in Julia S. O'Connor and Gregg M.Olsen, eds., Power Resources Theory and the Welfare State: A Critical Approach (University of Toronto Press, 1998).
• "How Socialist is Solidaristic Social Policy? Swedish Postwar Reform as a Case in Point," International Review of Social History, 2 (1988); Swedish translation in Arkivför studier i arbetarrörelsens historia, 50 (n.d.).
• "Zionist and Non-Zionist Jews in the Last Years Before the Nazi Regime," Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook,27 (1982).
• "Clausewitz in Nazi Germany," Journal of Contemporary History, 16, 1 (1981); reprinted in Walter Laqueur, ed., The Second World War: Essays in Military and Political History (London 1981).
• "Liberalism, Nationalism and Degeneration: The Case of Max Nordau," Central European History, 13, 2 (1980).

Review Essays and Responses

• "Riding the Subways of Gemeinschaft," Acta Sociologica, 41, 4 (1998).
• "The Welfare State for Historians," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34, 4 (October 1992).

Journalism

• “Contemporary Politics, Contagion, and Copyright,”History Twins Podcast, August 2019.
• “Copyright Wars,” radio interview with Romesh Vaitilingam, 16 April 2016, at Vox, Center for Economic and Policy Research.
• "The Art of the Steal: Copyright in Retreat" Newsweek, 9 November 2014.
• "The Copyright Wars," Publishers Weekly, Frankfurt Show Daily, 9 October 2014.
• "How Europe Won the Copyright Wars," iRights, 18 March 2014.
• "In zehn Jahren werden wir über Open Access nicht mehr reden müssen," interviewed by Henry Steinhau, iRights Info, 14 March 2014.
• "Betting on Vetting: Evaluation, not Publication, Should Be Academe's New Priority,"Chronicle of Higher Education, 17 February 2014, discussed, and with an interview in Yang Min, "Online Publication Encounters Issues of Innovating Evaluation Systems" (in Chinese)Chinese Social Sciences Today, 26 February 2014.
• “Separated at Birth? Europe and America in the 21stCentury,” American Interest, 8,4, March/April 2013.
• “Tracing Europe’s Long Road to Economic Catastrophe,” New Republic,9 March 2012.
• “What is the UC System Worth?” Los Angeles Times, 23 February 2011.
• “The 24/7/365 Society vs. La Dolce Vita,” Huffington Post, 23 August 2010.
• “Why We Have Culture Wars and theEuropeans (Apparently) Do Not,” Huffington Post, 9 August 2010.
• “Is the EU Too Big to Be Democratic?” openDemocracy, 22 June 2010.

New York Times, “Room for Debate”

• “A US More Like Denmark?” 20 October 2015.
• “Quotas for Politics, Not Business,” 22 March 2010.
• “A Nice Problem to Have,” 31 May 2010.
• “More Work But Less Stress?,” 4 August 2010.