Stanley Hoffmann

Stanley Harry Hoffmann (born November 27, 1928 in Vienna , † September 13, 2015 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American political scientist. He worked as a university professor at Harvard University as well as at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris .

Life

Hoffmann was the son of a Jewish Austrian and an American. The parents divorced shortly after his birth, and Hoffmann's mother moved to Nice and from there in 1936 to Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris . They survived the German persecution of the Jews in southern France.

He studied in Paris and Nice and took French citizenship in 1947. After graduating from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , he taught there and at the elite university École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). In 1955 he moved to the United States , where he became Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at the traditional American University of Harvard . He received US citizenship in 1960.

Hoffmann's academic focus was on French history of ideas and politics, American foreign policy, European post-war history and politics, sociology of war, international relations, modern political ideologies and the development of the modern state.

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Its importance for research resulted in particular from his controversial dialogue with Ernst B. Haas , whose neo-functionalist interpretation of the European integration process Hoffmann denied and who opposed his own conception of the process of European unification based on realistic intergovernmentalist foundations. So was Andrew Moravcsik significantly influenced by Hoffmann contribution to the theory of European integration.

In 1964 Hoffmann was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1981 and a corresponding member of the British Academy since 1996 . In 1996 he was awarded the Balzan Prize .

Fonts (selection)

Sole authorship

• The State of War: Essays on the Theory and Practice of International Politics. Praeger, 1965.
• Gulliver's Troubles: or, the Setting of American Foreign Policy. McGraw-Hill, 1968.
• Decline or Renewal? France since the 1930s. Viking Press, 1974.
• Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War , (McGraw-Hill, 1978).
• Duties beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics , (Syracuse University Press, 1981).
• Dead Ends: American Foreign Policy in the New Cold War , (Ballinger Publishing, 1983).
• Janus and Minerva: Essays in the Theory and Practice of International Politics , (Westview Press, 1987).
• The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994 , (Westview Press, 1995).
• World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era , (Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
• World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era , Updated ed., (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Co-authorship

• The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention. Co-authors: Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba and Raimo Vayrynen. University of Notre Dame Press, 1996.
• Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq. Co-author: Frédéric Bozo. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Editorships

• Contemporary Theory in International Relations , (Prentice-Hall, 1960).

Co-editorships

• The Relevance of International Law: Essays in honor of Leo Gross , co-edited with Karl W. Deutsch, Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Leo Gross , (Schenkman Publishing, 1968).
• Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook , co-edited with Paschalis Kitromilides, (Allen & Unwin, 1981).
• The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France , co-edited with William G. Andrews, (State University of New York Press, 1981).
• The Marshall Plan: A Retrospective , co-edited with Charles Maier, (Westview Press, 1984).
• The Rise of the Nazi Regime: Historical Reassessments , co-edited with Charles S. Maier and Andrew Gould, (Westview Press, 1986).
• The Mitterrand Experiment: Continuity and Change in Modern France , co-edited with George Ross and Sylvia Malzacher, (Polity, 1987).
• Rousseau on International Relations , co-edited with David P. Fidler, (Oxford University Press, 1991).
• The New European Community: Decisionmaking and Institutional Change , co-edited with Robert O. Keohane, (Westview Press, 1991).
• After the Cold War: International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989-1991 , co-edited with Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, (Harvard University Press, 1993).

Web links

• Literature by and about Stanley Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• William Grimes: Stanley Hoffmann, Who Brought Passion to Foreign Policy Analysis, Dies at 86. In: The New York Times , September 13, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member History: Stanley Hoffmann. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 2, 2018 (with short biography). 
2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed June 11, 2020 .