Dr. Andreas Weiß is a faculty member and researcher at the Helmut Schmidt University/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg. Studying Modern and Contemporary History, Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Universidad de Cantrabia, Santander, his dissertation dealt with (trans-imperial) debates on modernity and decadence between Asians and Europeans in turn-of-the-century Great Britain and Germany, published in 2016. He is currently working on the cooperation between the European Communities and ASEAN during the Cold War. His latest publication regarding transimperial cooperation is the editorship of a thematic issue on “World Knowledge and Non-European Space: Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Children's Books”.

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