Robert O. Keohane

Robert O. Keohane giving a lecture at Lund University

Robert Owen Keohane (born October 3, 1941 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American political scientist and professor of international relations at the Woodrow Wilson faculty at Princeton University . Keohane is considered to be one of the most important exponents of contemporary international relations theory.

Together with his friend and colleague Joseph S. Nye , he developed his interdependence theory / regime theory in the jointly written book Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition . For his work After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy ( Princeton , 1984) he received the Grawemeyer Award in 1989 , which he received for his services to improving and expanding the understanding of international relations (Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order) excellent.

He received the 2016 Balzan Prize for International Relations: History and Theory.

Life

After graduating from high school , Keohane was initially unsure of which career direction to take. In the end, he decided to study political science, more precisely international relations, which was due not least to the strong educational influence of his parents. According to his own statements, he is a theorist, but at the beginning of his studies it never occurred to him to study political theory because he lacked practical relevance.

So it happened that at the age of only 16 he attended Shimer College (Mount Carroll, Illinois), where his father was a social scientist . Three years later he passed his degree with the highest possible distinction ( BA “with great distinction”, equivalent to “ summa cum laude ”). Immediately thereafter, he went to Harvard to continue his studies, where he received a Master of Arts in 1964 and a doctorate in 1966 at the age of 25, also with honors . Keohane currently lives with his wife Nannerl, also a political scientist, in Princeton and works at Princeton University ( New Jersey ) there. He has four grown children and seven grandchildren.

Keohane held various assistants and professorships, including a. at Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pennsylvania ; 1965–1973), Stanford University ( Stanford , California ; 1973–1981), Brandeis University ( Waltham , Massachusetts ; 1981–1985), Harvard University ( Cambridge , Massachusetts; 1985–1996 ), and Duke University ( Durham , North Carolina ). In 2006 he then took over a professorship at Princeton University. In autumn 2013 Keohane was a Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin .

Awards, memberships and grants

Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Faculty of Princeton University (1961–1962) and PhD fellowship (1964–1965).
"Sumner Award" (Best Ph.D. - thesis , Department of Government)., 1966
Skytte Prize of the Johan Skytte Foundation, Uppsala , Sweden , 2005
Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order , 1989
Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1983
Member of the American Philosophical Society since 2007
Research Grants from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences , 1977–1978; 1987-1988; 2004-2005
Guggenheim Fellowship , 1992–1993
"Bellagio Resident" fellow, 1993
National Endowment for the Humanities “Frank Kenan Fellow”, 1995–1996
Honorary doctorate (Aeresdoktorer) from Aarhus University ( Denmark ), 1998
"Mentor Award" of the "Society for Women in International Political Economy", 1997
Yale University Law School Sherill Lecturer , 1996
Research grant from the Social Science Research Council "Senior Foreign Policy Fellowship", September 1987, August 1988
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship, 1977–1978
Council on Foreign Relations, International Affairs Fellowship, 1968–1969
Allianz Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin , autumn 2013

literature

Gert Krell : World Views and World Order . 2nd edition, Baden-Baden 2003, pp. 183-190, ISBN 3832909664
Robert O. Keohane: After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy . Princeton University Press , 1984

Web links

Literature by and about Robert O. Keohane in the catalog of the German National Library
Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (English)
Robert O. Keohane as the Allianz Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin

Individual evidence

^ Member History: Robert O. Keohane. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 22, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Keohane, Robert O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Keohane, Robert Owen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American political scientist; Developer of the regime theory
DATE OF BIRTH	October 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago , Illinois

[1] Member History: Robert O. Keohane. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 22, 2018 .