His specialty is 20th Century Europe, and he has focused on the significance of justice in the politics of reconstruction, especially in the aftermath of the Second World War. His primary focus of this has been on the foreign policies of the victorious countries in the war towards the dictatorship of Franco’s Spain in the 1940s. More broadly, Messenger is interested in human rights in international politics and the memory of war and violence in contemporary European societies and especially Spain.
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- Modern Europe, Spain, Human Rights, War and Memory
