2026 Charles S. Maier: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Political Science	30	1162	1049	589	511	160	5027

Research.com Recognitions

1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Charles S. Maier is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within the social sciences, with a focus on history, political science, and international relations. Their expertise includes the study of historical geopolitical and social dynamics, Eastern European communism and reforms, as well as topics related to Italian fascism and post-war society. Additional interests cover musicology, musical analysis, music technology, and sound studies, alongside Catholicism and religious studies.

Their recent published papers include the following:

'Bliss was it in that Dawn'... or was it? (2020), published in Past & Present
The Austrian State Treaty and the Cold War (2021), published in Journal of Cold War Studies
On statelessness: a modern history, the Francesco Guicciardini prize forum (2022), published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer (2023), published in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Out of Austria: Natasha Wheatley's Staatenlehre (2024), published in History of European Ideas

They have published books through Harvard University Press, including two editions of The Project-State and Its Rivals, both released in 2023.

Frequent co-authors in their work include J. G. A. Pocock, Joseph Frank, Robert Jervis, Robert S. Ridgely, and John Gwynne.

Common venues for their publications are:

Past & Present
Journal of Cold War Studies
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
History of European Ideas

Charles S. Maier's main fields of study encompass:

Social Sciences

Subfields include:

Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations
Music
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
History

Their primary research topics cover:

Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
Eastern European Communism and Reforms
Musicology and Musical Analysis
Music Technology and Sound Studies
Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
Catholicism and Religious Studies

Charles S. Maier has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991 and was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1984.

Best Publications

The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Domestic Politics and War

Robert I. Rotberg;Theodore K. Rabb;Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin

568
Citations
The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity

Charles S. Maier

451
Citations
Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era

Charles S. Maier

345
Citations
Recasting bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the decade after World War I

Charles S. Maier

339
Citations
Between Taylorism and Technocracy: European ideologies and the vision of industrial productivity in the 1920s

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242
Citations
Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors

Charles S Maier

220
Citations
The Two Postwar Eras and the Conditions for Stability in Twentieth-Century Western Europe

Charles S. Maier

205
Citations
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Charles S. Maier

198
Citations
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Theory of Hegemonic War

Robert I. Rotberg;Theodore K. Rabb;Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin

182
Citations
The shock of the global : the 1970s in perspective

Erez Manela;Niall Ferguson;Charles S. Maier;Daniel J. Sargent

170
Citations
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

William Diebold;Leon N. Lindberg;Charles S. Maier

155
Citations
Recasting bourgeois Europe

Charles S. Maier

145
Citations
In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy

Charles S. Maier

127
Citations
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin;Myron P. Gutmann;Jeffrey L. Hughes

121
Citations
Democracy and Its Discontents

Charles S. Maier

100
Citations
Changing boundaries of the political : essays on the evolving balance between the state and society, public and private in Europe

Charles S. Maier

86
Citations
Has liberalism failed women? : assuring equal representation in Europe and the United States

Jytte Klausen;Charles S. Maier

68
Citations
Society and Democracy in Germany.

Charles S. Maier;Ralf Dahrendorf

56
Citations
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500

Charles S. Maier

34
Citations
Once within borders

Charles S. Maier

33
Citations
Leviathan 2.0: Inventing Modern Statehood

Charles S. Maier

31
Citations
The Marshall Plan and Germany : West German development within the framework of the European Recovery Program

Charles S. Maier;Günter Bischof

20
Citations
Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany

Diethelm Prowe;Charles S. Maier

9
Citations
The Unmasterable past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity

Fritz Stern;Charles S. Maier

9
Citations
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation

Martin Bronfenbrenner;Leon N. Lindberg;Charles S. Maier

4
Citations
The Unmasterable past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity

James J. Sheehan;Charles S. Maier

4
Citations
Economics as Politics@@@In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy.

Charles Tilly;Charles S. Maier

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Jervis Columbia University

Kenneth N. Waltz University of California, Berkeley

Scott D. Sagan Stanford University

Robert I. Rotberg Harvard University

Jack S. Levy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita New York University

Joseph S. Nye Harvard University

Niall Ferguson Hoover Institution

Stanley Hoffmann Harvard University

James Binney University of Oxford

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