Krister Knapp a teaching professor and the minor adviser in history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He teaches courses about conflict and security, including “The Cold War, 1945-1991” and “Hot Peace: US-Russia Relations Since the Cold War.” He also coordinates the Crisis & Conflict in Historical Perspective series
Krister Knapp
Teaching professor and minor adviser in History
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- Email: KKnapp@wustl.edu
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What the Roman Republic can teach us about Trump’s war in Iran
Announcing “major combat operations,” President Trump called on the Iranian people to rise against their government. Now, he declared, would be their “only chance for generations.” This appeal to opportunity echoes arguments for the Liberator’s Civil War of 43-42 BC, which pitted Roman republican Markus Junius Brutus against future emperor Octavius, writes Krister Knapp.
Trump wants a ‘Department of War.’ Here’s why it’s not called that anymore.
Krister Knapp, teaching professor in history
Return of the ‘war on terror’
“After 9/11, we often heard the phrase ‘this changes everything,’ writes WashU’s Krister Knapp, who teaches courses in U.S. National Security and Foreign Policy. For Israelis, Hamas’s recent attack against Israeli citizens “signal a similar paradigmatic shift.”
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Unpacking the crisis in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine took much of the world by surprise. On March 9, a group of WashU faculty will attempt to sort through the roots of the conflict, as well as the latest developments, in the virtual panel discussion “Crisis in Ukraine.”
Putin, Russian security and the invasion of Ukraine
In the post-Cold War era, the gradual emergence of an independent Ukrainian identity has threatened Kremlin ambitions for a unified Slavic whole, writes WashU’s Krister Knapp.
WashU Expert: Did 9/11 ‘change everything’?
For years after the World Trade Center collapsed, it became common to hear that “9/11 changed everything.” Yet the phrase is ripe for historical analysis, said Krister Knapp, teaching professor and minor adviser in history in Arts & Sciences.
WashU Expert: There is no end to forever
The swift fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban apparently signals the end of a nearly 20-year conflict. But is it, asks Krister Knapp, a teaching professor of history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Or is this simply the beginning of the next chapter of U.S/Afghan entanglements?
WashU Expert: The nuclear football
It is the ultimate symbol of public trust. Accompanying the president, at virtually all times, is a military aid with a large black satchel known as the “nuclear football.” But for all its prominence in the popular imagination, the football does not contain some sort of “nuclear button” that might allow a president to single-handedly initiate nuclear launch, says Krister Knapp, senior lecturer in history in Arts & Sciences.