Friedrich Kratochwil

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Friedrich Viktor Kratochwil (* 1944 in Lundenburg ) is a German political scientist . Until 2011 he taught international politics at the European University Institute in Florence ( Italy ).

Alongside Alexander Wendt and Nicholas Onuf, he is one of the representatives of constructivism in international relations . Central to his work is the conceptualization of language as action. Language is closely related to norms and rules that produce inter-subjective meanings that allow actors to act socially (ie in relation to others).

Life

Kratochwil was born in Lundenburg (former Czechoslovakia ). After graduating from high school in 1963 at the humanistic Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich , he studied eight semesters of philosophy , history and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University. He received his MA from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in February 1969 in the field of international relations. In January 1976 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in the state of New Jersey and received his Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D. ) in political science with a focus on International Relations.

Kratochwil emigrated to the USA in the mid-1960s . There he taught at the American universities in Maryland , Princeton , Columbia , Delaware and Pennsylvania and at the European University Institute in Florence ( Italy ). Until 2003 Friedrich Kratochwil was professor for "International Politics" at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

From 2000 to 2004 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations . He was also a member of the editorial boards of the journals International Studies Quarterly , International Organization , World Politics and Millennium: Journal of International Studies and is still a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific .

Publications

Publications in English

  • International Order and Foreign Policy (Boulder, Colo .: Westview Press, 1978)
  • The human Conception of International Relations, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, NJ, 1981.
  • International Law: Acontemporary Perspective (Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1985) co-edited with Richard Falk, Princeton University and Saul Mendlvit, Rutgers Law School.
  • Rules, Norms and Decisions, On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Society (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989), Paperback edition March, 1991.
  • International Organization, A Reader (together with Ed Mansfield, eds., New York: Harper Collins, 1993)
  • The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory (together with Yosef Lapid (ed), Boulder, Colo.:Lynne Riener Publ., 1996)
  • "The Embarrassment of Changes: Neo-Realism as the Science of Realpolitik Without Politics", Review of International Studies 19 (1993), 63-80
  • The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries Into the Genesis and Transformation of International Relations , (Routledge, 2010) (collected articles)

Publications in German

  • Politics and Political Science , Journal of Politics, vol.18 (1971), no.2, pp.113-23
  • America, are you better off? , Zeitschrift für Politik, vol.20 (1972), no.1 pp.73-81
  • What do we know about the change in the relationship between state, market and society? , World Trends, No.7, pp.114-132.

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