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CareerMazower earned his BA in Classics and Philosophy from Oxford in 1981 and his doctorate from the same university in 1988. He also holds an MA in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University (1983). Prior to his arrival at Columbia Mazower taught at Birkbeck, University of London, and at the University of Sussex. He has also taught at Princeton University.
Mazower also writes for various newspapers since 2002 including articles and comments on international affairs and book reports for the Financial Times and for The Independent.
He has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO).
Fields of interestHe has written extensively on Balkan history, and Greek history. His book The Balkans: A Short History won the Wolfson History Prize and Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44, won both the Longman History Today Award for Book of the Year. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews 1430-1950 was the Runciman Prize and Duff Cooper Prize winner and was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize.
In addition, Mazower is more broadly concerned with 20th-century European history. His book Dark Continent: Europe's 20th century argued that the triumph of democracy in Europe was not inevitable but rather the result of chance and political agency on the part of citizens, subjects and leaders.
In Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, Mazower compared Nazi occupation policy in different European countries.
His most recent book No Enchanted Palace was published in 2009. It narrates the origins of the United Nations and its strict ties to colonialism and its predecessor organization, the League of Nations.