The Research Area ‘Heterogeneity and Cohesion’ and the Center for Inter-American Studies present:
This lecture will show that since the beginning of the 20th century, political conflicts determined the relationships between the German Empire and the USA, and the Caribbean became one of the scenes of these conflicts follow- ing World War I. General reasons were the imperial policy, increased German investments, the submarine warfare and the US economic interests.
Christian Cwik has been the lecturer for European and Atlantic History at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago since 2013. He has held positions in Caribbean and Latin American History at the University of Cologne, Germany and further positions at the University of Vienna and the University of Graz in Austria. He has held visiting positions at Dresden University in Germany, the Pablo Olavide University in Seville, Spain, the Havana University in Cuba as well as at Cartagena University in Colombia and the Bolivarian University in Venezuela. He is expertise lies in Atlantic, Caribbean and Latin American history.