Fritz Bartel

Fritz Bartel joined the Department of International Affairs in 2019. He came to the Bush School from Yale University, where he was Associate Director of International Security Studies and also held a postdoctoral fellowship.

Bartel’s book The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism was published with Harvard University Press in 2022. It won the Center for Presidential History Book Prize, the Ed Hewitt Book Prize in Political Economy from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), and as a dissertation, the 2018 Oxford University Press USA Dissertation Prize in International History from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). The book has also now been translated into Spanish and German. Along with Nuno P. Monteiro, he co-edited
Before and After the Fall: World Politics and the End of the Cold War
(Cambridge University Press, 2021). His work has been published in Diplomatic History, Enterprise & Society, and Russian History. He received his PhD in history from Cornell University.

Bartel is now at work on a global history of political, economic, and legal transitions at the end of the 20th century.