Igor Lukes writes primarily about Central Europe. His publications deal with the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia. His books include: Dejiny a doba postfakticka: eseje, uvahy, glosy (Maraton, 2022), On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague (Oxford, 2012), Rudolf Slansky: His Trials and Trial (Woodrow Wilson Center, 2006), and Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930′s (Oxford, 1996). His is a co-author of The Munich Conference, 1938: Prelude to World War II (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (1990), and Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis (1990). His scholarly articles have been published in Journal of Contemporary History, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Historie a vojenstvi, Studies in Intelligence, and Slavic Review.
Lukes is the recipient of the Central Intelligence Agency 2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Literature on Intelligence and the 2000 Stanley Z. Pech Prize for his article “The Rudolf Slansky Affair: New Evidence.” In 2018, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. He was the 2017 Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Initiate and had Erasmus Mundus Grant in 2015 and a Fulbright Specialist Grant in 2014. He was also a 2012 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In 2004-05, he was a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Lukes is an Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in Boston.