Stephen D. Krasner
Stephen Krasner | |
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Director of Policy Planning | |
In office February 4, 2005 – April 20, 2007 | |
President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Mitchell B. Reiss |
Succeeded by | David F. Gordon |
Personal details | |
Born | Stephen David Krasner February 15, 1942 |
Alma mater | Cornell University (BA) Columbia University (MA) Harvard University (PhD) |
Stephen David Krasner (born February 15, 1942) is an American academic and former diplomat. Krasner has been a professor of international relations at Stanford University since 1981, and served as the Director of Policy Planning from 2005 to April 2007 while on leave from Stanford.[1]
A realist, he is known for his contributions to International Relations and International Political Economy.[2][3]
Education[]
Krasner was born on February 15, 1942 in New York City.[4] He was raised in Manhattan.[5] He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of History at Cornell University in 1963, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He earned his master's degree from Columbia University. In 1972, he completed his PhD at Harvard University.[5] He did his PhD dissertation on the international coffee market.[5] At Harvard University, he was influenced by Albert Hirschman.[5]
Career[]
Before coming to Stanford University in 1981, Krasner taught at Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles. He was the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1992.[6][5]
Krasner is the author of six books and over ninety articles. He has taught courses on international relations, international political economy, international relations theory, policy making, and state-building at Stanford University. He received a dean’s award for excellence in teaching in 1991.
Krasner was a key figure in establishing Regime theory as a prominent topic of study in IR, in part through the 1983 edited collection International Regimes.[7][8] Krasner is a key figure in the development of Hegemonic stability theory.[2][9] Krasner was influenced by Robert Gilpin.[5] He has also written extensively about statehood and sovereignty.
Krasner is credited with incorporating the idea of punctuated equilibrium into the social sciences and contributing to critical juncture theory.[10]
Krasner is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Krasner was named Director of Policy Planning in the State Department by his former Stanford University colleague Condoleezza Rice.[5]
Bibliography[]
- Are Bureaucracies Important? (1972)
- State Power and the Structure of International Trade" (1976)
- Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investment and American Foreign Policy (1978)
- Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1985)
- Compromising Westphalia (1996)
- Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999)
- Addressing State Failure (2005)
- Building Democracy After Conflict: The Case For Shared Sovereignty (2005)
- Power, the State, and Sovereignty: Essays on International Relations (2009)
Edited works[]
- International Regimes (1983)
- Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (co-editor, 1999)
- Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities (2001)
Selected articles[]
- "Think Again: Sovereignty". Foreign Policy. November 20, 2009.
- Krasner, Stephen D. 1984. "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics." Comparative Politics 16(2): 223–46;
- Krasner, Stephen D. 1988. "Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 21(1): 66–94.
References[]
- ^ Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Krasner, Stephen". 2001-2009.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 72–74. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
- ^ Keohane, Robert O. (2013), Finnemore, Martha; Goldstein, Judith (eds.), "Stephen Krasner: Subversive Realist", Back to Basics, Oxford University Press, pp. 28–52, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970087.003.0003, ISBN 978-0-19-997008-7
- ^ "Conversation with History - Stephen Krasner, 2003". globetrotter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 97–99. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
- ^ "FSI | CDDRL - Stephen D. Krasner". cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 96, 100. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
- ^ Martin, Lisa L.; Simmons, Beth A. (1998). "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions". International Organization. 52 (4): 729–757. doi:10.1162/002081898550734. ISSN 1531-5088.
- ^ Webb, Michael C.; Krasner, Stephen D. (1989). "Hegemonic Stability Theory: An Empirical Assessment". Review of International Studies. 15 (2): 183–198. ISSN 0260-2105.
- ^ Stephen D. Krasner, "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics." Comparative Politics 16(2)(1984): 223–46; Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 21(1)(1988): 66–94.
External links[]
- 1942 births
- Directors of Policy Planning
- Stanford University Department of Political Science faculty
- School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Living people
- Political realists