Dominik Geppert is Professor of Modern History at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn. His main fields of research are international history and intellectual history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as British and German contemporary history. He is the author of Pressekriege. Offentlichkeit und Diplomatie in den deutsch-britischen Beziehungen, 1896 1912 (2007). His most recent book, Ein Europa, das es nicht gibt. Die fatale Sprengkraft des Euro (2013), puts the current European crisis in historical perspective.