Robert Keohane

Robert Keohane is James B. Duke Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He was formerly Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, and has also taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and Brandeis University. He received his B.A., from Shimer College (1961) and his Ph.D. from Harvard University (1966). He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984), for which he was awarded the second annual Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for Ideas Improving World Order. He is also the author of International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Westview, 1989), co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Little, Brown, 1977, second edition, 1988), and co-author (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton, 1994). He is editor or co-editor of, and contributor to, nine other books. Between 1974 and 1980 he was editor of the journal, International Organization. He was president of the International Studies Association, 1988-89. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Rockefeller Foundation center at Bellagio, Italy, and the National Humanities Center.