Peter Joachim Katzenstein
FBA (born February 17, 1945) is a German-American political scientist. He is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
. Katzenstein has made influential contributions to the fields of comparative politics, international relations, and international political economy.
His main concentration lies in the study of culture, religion, identity, and
regionalism in the interstate system, for which he is known as a proponent of
constructivist thinking.
He is often associated with the school of neoliberal institutionalism through his joint projects with
Robert Keohane
Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941) is an American academic working within the fields of international relations and international political economy. Following the publication of his influential book ''After Hegemony'' (1984), he has bec ...
. He is known for his influential research on
corporatism
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.
Personal life
Peter Katzenstein was born on February 17, 1945, in
Hamburg, Germany
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. He moved to the United States at the age of nineteen.
He became a U.S. citizen in 1979.
In 1970, he married
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, an American political scientist.
They have two children, and reside in
Ithaca, New York
Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca is the seat of Tompkins County and the largest community in the Ithaca metropolitan statistical area. It is named ...
. He speaks German and English.
Education
Katzenstein was educated in Germany in
Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums before moving to the United States, where he ended up receiving a
B.A. from
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College ( , ) is a private liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. It was established as ...
in 1967, majoring in political science, economics, and literature.
While at Swarthmore, he took a class alongside fellow students
Margaret Levi and
David Laitin, who would both go on to become prominent political scientists. The next year he earned an M.Sc. from the
London School of Economics
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, and six years later he received his
Ph.D. from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
with thesis titled ''Disjoined Partners: Austria and Germany since 1815''. At Harvard University, Katzenstein was strongly influenced by
Karl Deutsch who was the main reason by Katzenstein applied for graduate studies at Harvard in the first place.
Career
His first stint as teacher came in 1971 when he served as a
teaching fellow
A teaching fellow (sometimes referred to as a TF) is an individual at a higher education institution, including universities, whose role involves teaching and potentially pedagogic research. The work done by teaching fellows can vary enormously f ...
in the Government Department at Harvard. The following year he became a part-time instructor in comparative politics of Western Europe at the
University of Massachusetts
The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and a medical ...
. From 1973 to 1977 he served as an assistant professor of government at Cornell, before becoming an associate professor for three years until 1980. From 1980 to 1987 he was a professor of government, before finally accepting the position he holds to this day as the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University.
Katzenstein served as president of the
American Political Science Association
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orle ...
(2008–2009). He was elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, a ...
in 1987
and the
American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...
in 2009. He was the recipient of the 1974 Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in international relations; of the American Political Science Association's 1986 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the United States on international affairs; and, together with Nobuo Okawara, of the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. One of his edited volumes, The Culture of National Security, was selected by ''Choice'' magazine as one of the top ten books in international relations in 1997. Katzenstein has been a Fellow at the Princeton
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent schola ...
, the Stanford
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social and ...
, the
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is an American non-profit organisation established by Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States.” It was named after her recently deceased husband, rai ...
, the
Woodrow Wilson Center and the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (german: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) is an interdisciplinary institute founded in 1981 in Grunewald, Berlin, Germany, dedicated to research projects in the natural and social sciences. It is model ...
. In addition he has held numerous fellowships, and he continues to serve on the editorial boards and academic advisory committees of various journals and organizations, both in the United States and abroad.
Katzenstein was editor of the journal ''International Organization'', the leading IR journal, from 1980 to 1986.
Since 1982 Katzenstein has served as the editor of over 100 books that Cornell University Press has published under the imprint of the Cornell Studies in Political Economy. Katzenstein is an influential figure in the field of International Political Economy.
Since joining the Cornell Government Department in 1973, Katzenstein has chaired or been a member of more than one hundred dissertation committees. He received Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award from
Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS or A&S) is a division of Cornell University. It has been part of the university since its founding, although its name has changed over time. It grants bachelor's degrees, and masters and doctorates through af ...
in 1993, and, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching, was made one of Cornell University's
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows in 2004.
He was elected as a
Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.
It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars s ...
in 2015. He is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. Founded in 1921, it is a nonprofit organization that is independent and nonpartisan. CFR is based in New York Ci ...
.
Katzenstein strongly influenced David Lake, Louis Pauly, Joseph Grieco and Rawi Abdelal.
In 2020, he was the recipient of the prestigious
Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science
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Publications
Katzenstein has written or served as a primary editor of nearly 40 books. His ''Anti-Americanism in World Politics'' (
Cornell University Press
The Cornell University Press is the university press of Cornell University; currently housed in Sage House, the former residence of Henry William Sage. It was first established in 1869, making it the first university publishing enterprise in ...
, 2007) was co-authored with
Robert Keohane
Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941) is an American academic working within the fields of international relations and international political economy. Following the publication of his influential book ''After Hegemony'' (1984), he has bec ...
; his best-known work, ''A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium,'' was published in 2005. His ''Comparing Policy Network: Labor Politics in the U.S., Germany and Japan'' (Cambridge University Press, 1995) was co-authored with
Yutaka Tsujinaka.
References
External links
Peter Katzenstein's website
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1945 births
Alumni of the London School of Economics
International relations scholars
Constructivist international relations scholars
Cornell University faculty
Swarthmore College alumni
Harvard University alumni
Living people
People educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy