Madeleine Herren-Oesch (*26. January 1956 in Bern) is a Swiss historian.

Madeleine Herren studied history

History

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 and history of literature

History of literature

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 at the University of Bern. She wrote her licentiate about "Aspekte cisleithanischer Sozialpolitik" (Aspects of the Cisleithanian Social Policy

Cisleithania

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) and in 1989 her dissertation about "Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive der Dritten Französischen Republik" (International pre-World War I

World War I

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 Social Policy from the perspective of the French Third Republic

French Third Republic

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). In 1997 she was promoted to professor with "Hintertüren zur Macht - Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914" (Internationalism and modernized foreign policy

Foreign policy

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 in Belgium

Belgium

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and the United States

United States

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 1865-1914). Since 2004, Madeleine Herren is a professor for contemporary history

Contemporary history

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 at the University of Heidelberg.

Publications

• Hintertüren zur Macht. Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914. München 2000.
• Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg, Berlin 1993.
• Netzwerk Außenpolitik. Internationale Organisationen und Kongresse als Instrumente der schweizerischen Außenpolitik 1914-1950, Madeleine Herren-Oesch und Sacha Zala, Zürich 2002.