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Center for War Studies

Thomas Wegener Friis

Associate Professor, Head of Centre for Cold War Studies
Department of Culture and Language

Phone: +45 65 50 22 68
Email: twfriis@sdu.dk
Webpage: https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/persons/twfriis

Research areas
Intelligence
Security
Military history
Terrorism
Foreign policy 

Funded projects
Danmark-Polen under den kold Krig (Partner 2020-2024): Johanne Louis-Hansens Fond

Dänisch-Deutsches Erinnerungsparlament (Partner 2021-2022): Interreg
Medizin im Ostseeraum seit 1945: Netzwerke, Transfers, Auswirkungen, (Partner (2020-2022): Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Ekkoet af Treholtsagen i arkiverne (Leadpartner, 2020-2022): Monster/NRK
MEWEB: Media of East/West European border traffic in times of the Cold War (Partner, 2019-2022): Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Selected publications
Władysław Bułhak, Thomas Wegener Friis (2020): Shaping the European School of Intelligence Studies. In: International Journal for Intelligence, Security, and Public Affair, Nr. 3. Pp. 139-158.

Writing the history of modern international terrorism - where are the puzzles? In: Adian Hänni, Thomas Riegler, Przemeslaw Gasztold (ed.): Terrorism in the Cold War. State Support in the West, Middle East and Latin America. London. I.B. Tauris, p. 237-246 (Terrorism and Extremism Series). (With Martin Göllnitz, Adi Frimark)

Ostdeutsche Spionage in der Welt. Amerika bis Großbritannien. Frankfurt am Main 2018. (ed. with Helmut Müller-Enberg)

Spionage unter Freunden. Partnerdienstbeziehungen und Westaufklärung der Organisation Gehlen und des BND. Berlin 2017 (with Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Christoph Franceschini

Need to Know. Eastern and Western perspectives. Odense 2014 (ed. with Wladyslaw Bulhak).

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LinkedIn: Thomas Wegener Friis