Ulrich Krotz is a Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and a Senior Research Fellow / Faculty Associate at the Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po Paris. During 2023-24, he also served as the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School,Harvard University. Previously, he was Professor of International Relations and founding Director of the Research Programme Europe in the World: International Relations, International Security, World Politics in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI), and held the Alfred Grosser Chair at Sciences Po Paris.

He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, has taught at Oxford University, Brown, the EUI, Sciences Po, and Harvard, and held research positions at the EUI, Harvard, and Princeton. He is the author of Shaping Europe: France, Germany, and Embedded Bilateralism from the Elysée Treaty to Twenty-First Century Politics (with Joachim Schild) (Oxford University Press, 2013; revised and updated edition 2015); History and Foreign Policy in France and Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); Flying Tiger: International Relations Theory and the Politics of Advanced Weapons (Oxford University Press, 2011), and contributing co-editor of Europe’s Cold War Relations: The EC Towards a Global Role (with Kiran Klaus Patel and Federico Romero) (Bloomsbury, hardcover 2020; paperback 2021).

His articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in International Relations, international security, and European politics, including the European Journal of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Affairs, International Security, International Studies Review, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, West European Politics, and World Politics.