Dr. Lorena De Vita

Universitair hoofddocent
Geschiedenis van de internationale betrekkingen
l.devita@uu.nl

 

Books

 

 

Articles, Book Chapters, and Textbook Sections

 

  • De Vita, L. (Forthcoming). ‘Relations between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1973’ in Rob Geist Pinfold and Joel Peters (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Israel Foreign Relations. London: Routledge. 

     
  • De Vita, L. (Forthcoming). 'The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin' in Sybille Steinbacher and Katharina Rauschenberger (eds.) The Holocaust and the Cold War. Göttingen: Wallstein

     

  • De Vita, L., Ira, J., Serrier, T., Tompkins, A. (Forthcoming). 'Borders in Contemporary History' in Jan Hansen, Jochen Hung, Jaroslav Ira, Judit Klement, Sylvain Lesage, Juan Luis Simal, Andrew Tompkins (eds.). The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 

     
  • De Vita, L. 2022.  ‘Dutch Hospitality: The 1952 German-Jewish-Israeli Negotiations amid Post-Holocaust and Post-Imperial Tensions’, BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 137:2, pp. 4-29.  

     
  • De Vita, L. 2021. ‘Crisis at the Creation: The Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949’ in Rogelia Pastor-Castro and Martin Thomas (eds.) Embassies in Crisis: Managing Diplomatic Exposure. London: Routledge, 143-163.  

     
  • De Vita, L. 2021. ‘An East German “Star Lawyer”, the Nazi Past and the Cold War’ in Leora Bilsky and Annette Weinke (eds.) Jewish-European Émigré Lawyers: Twentieth Century International Humanitarian Law as Idea and Profession. Göttingen: Wallstein, 151-171.

     
  • De Vita, L. 2020.  'Contextualising German-Israeli Relations in the aftermath of the Holocaust’, [in Hebrew] Tabur: Yearbook for European History, Society, Culture and Thought. 

     
  • De Vita, L. 2018. ‘Ulbricht, Nasser and Khrushchev: The GDR’s Search for Diplomatic Recognition and the Suez Crisis, 1956’, in Muehlenbeck, P. and Telepneva, N. Warsaw Pact International Relations: Aid and Influence in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. London: IB Tauris, 21-47.  

     
  • De Vita, L. 2017. ‘Overlapping Rivalries: The two Germanys, Israel, and the Cold War’, Cold War History 17:4, 351-366. 

     
  • De Vita, L. 2015. ‘German-Israeli ties in 2015 and 1965: The Difficult Special Relationship’, International Affairs 91:4, 835-849.

 

 Book Reviews

 

  • De Vita, L. 2022. Review of Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building by Daniel Marwecki (London: Hurst, 2020) in German Studies Review (45:1), 190-192.

     
  • De Vita, L. 2022. Review of „Ich muß deshalb dringend von jeder zusätzlichen Aktion für Israel abraten.“. Das Auswärtige Amt und Israel zwischen 1967 und 1979 by Remko Leemhuis (Berlin: LIT, 2020) in H-Soz-Kult.

     
  • De Vita, L. 2020. Review of Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo by Seth Anziska (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019) in Diplomatica: Journal of Diplomacy and Society (2), 169-171. 

     
  • De Vita, L. 2018. Review (in German) of DDR und PLO: Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates by Lutz Maeke, Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften (18:4). 

     
  • De Vita, L. 2015. Review of Adenauer’s Foreign Office: Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich by Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., Intelligence and National Security (30:5), 747-748.

     
  • De Vita, L. 2014. Review of Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation by Lily Gardner Feldman, German History (32:3), 505-506.     

 

Public Writings

 

 

 

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L., & Goschler, C. (2025). Introduction: Wassenaar, 1952: Redefining Reparations. In Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair (pp. 1-25). Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377146-1
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/259863868/Introduction_25_03_26_14_08_38.pdf
De Vita, L., & Goschler, C. (Eds.) (2025). Redefining Reparations: Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair. Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377146
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/259862828/Redefining_Reparations_25_03_26_13_37_34.pdf

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2024). Podcast, Universiteit van Nederland, 'Hoe word je vrienden met je vijand?'. Digital or Visual Products, Universiteit van Nederland. https://youtu.be/qct9KFsVCus?feature=shared
De Vita, L., & van de Glind, F. (2024). TIPs for Succes: The T@UU Internationalisation Project. Utrecht University.
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/253019460/05-03-TIPs-for-Success-EN.pdf
De Vita, L. (2024, May 6). Response to Reviewers of Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969. Manchester University Press.
De Vita, L. (2024). Israel and Germany 1948–1973. In Routledge Handbook on Israel’s Foreign Relations (pp. 129-140). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003048398-13

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L., Carmichael, S., Evans, C., Hung, J., Onnekink, D., Visser, B., & Antheunisse, D. (2023). Internationalisation 2.0 Project: An Integral Approach to Internationalisation at the Geschiedenis/Histry BA at Utrecht University. Utrecht Universiteit.
De Vita, L. (2023). The Eichmann Trial as a Warsaw Pact Concern? The View from East Berlin. In S. Steinbacher , K. Rauschenberger, & J. von Puttkamer (Eds.), Investigating, Punishing, Agitating: Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc (pp. 92-113). Wallstein Verlag.
De Vita, L., Tompkins, A., Ira, J., & Serrier, T. (2023). Borders in Contemporary History (ca. 1900–2000). In J. Hansen, J. Hung, J. Ira, J. Klement, S. Lesage, J. L. Simal, & A. Tompkins (Eds.), The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500-2000 (pp. 53-62). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0323.06
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431752/1.2.3_Borders_in_Contemporary_History_ca._1900_2000_.pdf?sequence=1

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2022). Review of Trading Power: West Germany's Rise to Global Influence, 1963-1975 by William Glenn Gray. H-Diplo.
De Vita, L. (2022). Podcast interview 'German-Israeli Relations 1949-1969', IR Talk. Digital or Visual Products https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/irtalk/episodes/S2-E10-German-Israeli-Relations-1949-1969-with-Professor-Lorena-De-Vita-e1b5eqd
De Vita, L. (2022). Review of 'Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building'. By Daniel Marwecki. German Studies Review, 45(1), 190-192. https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2022.0015
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426545/Germany_and_Israel_White_Washing_and_State_Building_by_Daniel_Marwecki_review_.pdf?sequence=1
De Vita, L. (2022). Dutch Hospitality: The 1952 German-Jewish-Israeli Negotiations amid Post-Holocaust and Post-Imperial Tensions. BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 137(2), 4-29. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.7062
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/424881/bmgn2022029.pdf?sequence=1
De Vita, L. (2022, Jan 12). R. Leemhuis: „Ich muß deshalb dringend von jeder zusätzlichen Aktion für Israel abraten.“. Clio-online. https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49914
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426424/download.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2021). Podcast interview, 'Diplomacy', Tavelling Concepts On Air. Digital or Visual Products https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/episode-10-diplomacy/id1531763239?i=1000525858021
De Vita, L. (2021). Podcast Interview, 'Israelpolitik', New Books in Diplomatic History. Digital or Visual Products https://open.spotify.com/show/0MIbXivnuceG1zC5egFZt6
De Vita, L. (2021). An East German “Star Lawyer”, the Nazi Past and the Cold War. In L. Bilsky, & A. Weinke (Eds.), Jewish-European Émigré Lawyers: Twentieth Century International Humanitarian Law as Idea and Profession (1 ed., pp. 151-171). Wallstein.

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2020). Review of Preventing Palestine. A Political History from Camp David to Oslo, written by Seth Anziska, 2018. Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society, 2(1), 169-171. https://doi.org/10.1163/25891774-00201016
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/253841904/dipl-article-p169_169.pdf
De Vita, L. (2020). ישראל-פוליטיק // בין העבר הנאצי להווה של המלחמה הקרה: יחסי גרמניה-ישראל לאחר השואה. טבור כתב עת שנתי לענייני היסטוריה, חברה, תרבות והגות של מרכז אירופה, (10). https://tabur.huji.ac.il/%D7%98%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%92%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-10-%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A8-%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%98%D7%94
De Vita, L. (2020). Crisis at the Creation: The Establishment of the First US Embassy in Israel, 1947-1949. In R. Pastor-Castro, & M. Thomas (Eds.), Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations (1 ed., pp. 143-163). (Routledge Studies in Modern History). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351123501-8
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/234734673/10.4324_9781351123501-8_chapterpdf.pdf
De Vita, L. (2020). Israelpolitik: German-Israeli Relations, 1949-1969. (Key Studies in Diplomacy). Manchester University Press.

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2019). The Cold War in the Middle East: Then and Now. Atlantisch Perspectief, 2019(6), 34-37.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391121/AP_6_2019_De_Vita.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2018). Lorena De Vita: Rezension von: Lutz Maeke: DDR und PLO. Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates. Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 18(4). https://www.sehepunkte.de /2018/04/31011.html
De Vita, L. (2018). The Cold War in the Courtroom: Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem. Histoire@Politique, 35. https://doi.org/10.4000/histoirepolitique.6224
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/376576/de_vita.pdf?sequence=1
De Vita, L. (2018). Rezension von: Lutz Maeke: DDR und PLO. Die Palästinapolitik des SED-Staates. Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften, 18(4). http://www.sehepunkte.de/2018/04/31011.html
De Vita, L. (2018). Ulbricht, Nasser and Khrushchev: The GDR’s Search for Diplomatic Recognition and the Suez Crisis, 1956. In P. Muehlenbeck, & N. Telepneva (Eds.), Warsaw Pact intervention in the Third World: aid and influence in the Cold War IB Tauris.

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2017). Overlapping Rivalries: The two Germanys, Israel and the Cold War. Cold War History, 17(4), 351-366. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2017.1322580
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361003/Overlapping.pdf?sequence=1

Overige resultaten

De Vita, L. (2017). How the GDR Capitalized on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Web publication/site https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/how-the-gdr-capitalized-the-arab-israli-conflict

2015

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2015). Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr., Adenauer's Foreign Office: West German Diplomacy in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Intelligence and National Security, 30(5), 747-748. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2014.945368
De Vita, L. (2015). German-Israeli ties in 2015 and 1965: the difficult special relationship. International Affairs, 91(4), 835-849. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12335

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Vita, L. (2014). Review of Germany’s Foreign Policy of Reconciliation: From Enmity to Amity by Lily Gardner Feldman. German History, 32(3), 505-507. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghu003