Stig Forster is Professor of General Modern History at the University of Bern and has also taught at the University of Augsburg and held research fellowships at the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington D.C. His most recent publications include Der doppelte Militarismus. Die deutsche Heeresrustungspolitik zwischen Status-quo-Sicherung und Aggression, 1890 1913 (1985) and Die machtigen Diener der East India Company. Ursachen und Hintergrunde der britischen Expansionspolitik in Sudasien, 1793 1819 (1992).