Klaus W. Larres, PhD, is the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill, NC. He is currently a fellow at the Global Europe Programme and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center. Previously he held the Henry Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy & International Relations at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and also worked as a counsellor and senior policy adviser at the German Embassy in Beijing, China.