Lars Klein is Senior Lecturer in the Erasmus Mundus MA Programme “Euroculture – Europe in the Wider World” at Georg-August-University Göttingen. He holds a PhD in Contemporary History and has previously worked in a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research on “The History of War Reporting in the 20th Century” at the University of Braunschweig. His visiting scholarships have been, among others, at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, at the University of Pune and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. In another string of his research next to war reporting and US foreign policy, Lars Klein deals with topics of European identity, citizenship and generational theories. His publications include “Die ‘Vietnam-Generation’ der Kriegsberichterstatter. Ein amerikanischer Mythos zwischen Vietnam und Irak” (2011), “’Words That Can Only Be Used 100% Ironically’” (2013) and “How (Not) to Fix European Identity?” (2013).