Prof. Lukes Awarded Medal by the Czech Republic
Prof. Igor Lukes of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy was awarded a medal of recognition by the Czech Republic Ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Petr Gandalovic. The medal was awarded to honor Prof. Lukes’ contributions as Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in the Boston area and in New England States.
Prof. Lukes, a Professor of History and of International Relations, specializes in the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. His books include On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (New York: Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial(Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center, the working papers series, 2006), Ceskoslovensko mezi Stalinem a Hitlerem: Benesova cesta k Mnichovu (Prague: Prostor, 1999), and Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930′s(New York: Oxford, 1996), which won the Boston Authors Club Award and the Kahn Award. Lukes is also a co-author and co-editor of The Munich Conference, 1938: Prelude to World War II (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (1990), and Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis (1990).
Prof. Igor Lukes has also long served as the Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England. The medal was awarded recently at a ceremony in Los Angeles attended by members of the Czech diplomatic corps. Attendees included officials from the Foreign Ministry in Prague and diplomats who serve in the United States.
Congratulations, Prof. Igor Lukes.