My research focuses on the grand strategy, alliance diplomacy, and civil-military relations of the Central Powers during the First World War, with particular emphasis on Austria-Hungary. I completed my Ph.D. in International History at the LSE in 2011 with a work entitled “War Aims and Peace Conditions: Austro-Hungarian Foreign Policy in the Balkans, 1914-1918.” The monograph stemming from this research was published in July 2014 during the Centenary commemorations of the First World War. My wider research interests include the History of International Relations, International Security Policy, Central and Eastern European History, and International History 1867-1945.

Monographs

• Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the Balkans during World War I. © Palgrave Macmillan, London, July 2014.

Edited Volumes

• “‘A Life and Death Question’: Austro-Hungarian War Aims in the First World War,” in Afflerbach, H. (ed.) The Purpose of First World War – War Aims and Strategy during the Great War 1914-18, © Oldenburg, Germany, 2015.

Articles

• “The Cornerstone of Balkan Power Projection: Austro-Hungarian War Aims and the Problem of Albanian Neutrality, 1914–1918,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, 23:1–21, 2012
• “Feldmarschall Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf,” Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs (Journal of the Austrian National Archives) MÖStA, Bd. 52, 2007
• “Security and Fundamentalism in Uzbekistan: Challenges for U.S. Engagement,” International Affairs Review, Vol. XV, No. 1, 49 – 68, Spring 2006
• “Brockdorff-Rantzau and the Struggle for a Just Peace,” Diplomacy & Statecraft, 16: 403-416, 2005

Book Reviews

• (Expected Autumn 2015) Review of July Crisis – The World’s Descent Into War, Summer 1914, by T. G. Otte, History, 2015
• Review of The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia, 1914–1918, The International History Review, 33:3, 550-551, 2011

Papers & Talks

• June 2014, Radio Interview on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), aired 29 June 2014. Program Entitled: The View from Berlin, Presenter Dr. Michael Cathcart
• March 2013, Conference Presentation, Kolloquium des Historisches Kollegs, Munich.
• February 2012, Seminar Presentation, London School of Economics and Political Science.
• July 2011, Seminar Presentation, Imperial War Museum, London.
• September 2009, Commentator at First World War Studies Conference, Imperial War Museum, London.
• June 2009, Keynote Speaker at Conference, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon.
• March 2009, Military History Seminar Presentation, Institute of Historical Research, London.
• January 2009, International History Seminar Presentation, Institute of Historical Research, London.
• November 2008, Conference Presentation, Royal Netherlands Defense Academy, Breda.
• January 2008, Conference Presentation, German Historical Institute of London.

Additional sites:

LSE profile:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/internationalHistory/whosWho/teachingGTA-GT/mFried.aspx

LSE academia profile:

https://lse.academia.edu/MarvinBenjaminFried/