サムネイル|チャールズ・メイヤー チャールズ・メイヤー（Charles S. Maier、1939年2月23日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の歴史学者。専門は、ヨーロッパ現代史、政治経済学。
略歴・人物 ニューヨーク生まれ。1967年、ハーバード大学で博士号取得。ハーバード大学講師、デューク大学准教授・教授を経て、現在、ハーバード大学教授。
戦後西側世界において、政治が生産性の向上とそれに伴う経済成長に専心することで、利益の再分配という政治的争点を解消する政策を展開したとする「生産性の政治（Politics of Productivity）」の議論を唱えたことでも知られる。
著書 単著 Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany, and Italy in the Decade after World War I, (Princeton University Press, 1975). In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy, (Cambridge University Press, 1987). The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, (Harvard University Press, 1988). Dissolution: the Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany, (Princeton University Press, 1997). Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors, (Harvard University Press, 2006).
編著 The Origins of the Cold War and Contemporary Europe, (New Viewpoints, 1978). Changing Boundaries of the Political: Essays on the Evolving Balance between the State and Society, Public and Private in Europe, (Cambridge University Press, 1987). The Cold War in Europe, (M. Wiener Pub., 1991, Updated ed., 1996). The Marshall Plan and Germany: West German Development within the Framework of the European Recovery Program, (St. Martin's Press, 1991).
共編著
The Thirteenth of May: the Advent of De Gaulle's Republic, co-edited with Dan S. White, (Oxford University Press, 1968). The Marshall Plan: A Retrospective, co-edited with Stanley Hoffmann, (Westview Press, 1984). The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation: Theoretical Approaches and International Case Studies, co-edited with Leon N. Lindberg, (Brookings Institution, 1985). The Rise of the Nazi Regime: Historical Reassessments, co-edited with Stanley Hoffmann and Andrew Gould, (Westview Press, 1986). Has Liberalism Failed Women?: Assuring Equal Representation in Europe and the United States, co-edited with Jytte Klausen, (Palgrave, 2001).