Roger Chickering is Professor of History in the Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University. He is an established scholar of modern Germany and is the author of Das Deutsche Reich und der Erste Weltkrieg (2002); Kar Lamprecht: A German Academic Life, 1856 1915 (1993); We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League, 1886 1914 (1984); and Imperial Germany and a World Without War: The Peace Movement and German Society 1892 1914 (1975).