sentences:  Madeleine Herren-Oesch studied history and german literature at the University of Bern.She wrote her licentiate about "Aspekte cisleithanischer Sozialpolitik" ("Aspects of the Cisleithanian Social Policy") and in 1989 her dissertation about "Internationale Sozialpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg aus der Perspektive der Dritten Französischen Republik" ("International pre-World War I Social Policy from the perspective of the French Third Republic").In 1997 she was promoted to professor with "Hintertüren zur Macht - Internationalismus und modernisierungsorientierte Außenpolitik in Belgien, der Schweiz und den USA 1865-1914" (Internationalism and modernized foreign policy in Belgium, Switzerland and the United States 1865-1914).