Peter Katzenstein, President-Elect Cornell University

Peter J.  Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein’s work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on the politics of civilizational states on questions of public diplomacy, law, religion and popular culture; the role of anti-imperial sentiments, including anti-Americanism; regionalism in world politics; and German politics. Recent and forthcoming books include: Analytical Eclecticism, with Rudra Sil. The Politics of European Identity Construction (Cambridge University Press, 2008/9), co-edited with Jeffrey T. Checkel. Rethinking Japanese Security (Routledge, 2008). Anti-AmericanismS in World  Politics, co-edited with Robert O. Keohane (Cornell University Press, 2007). Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006), co-edited with Timothy A. Byrnes. Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2006), co-edited  with Takashi Shiraishi. A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Cornell University Press, 2005). Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power, and Efficiency (Stanford University Press, 2004), co-edited with Allen Carlson and JJ Suh. He is the author, coauthor, editor and coeditor of numerous other books, book chapters and papers. 

Katzenstein is the recipient of the 1974 Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association’s for the best dissertation in international relations, of the American Political Science Association’s 1986 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the United States on international affairs, and, together with Nobuo Okawara, of the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. One of his edited volumes, The Culture of National Security, was selected by Choice magazine as one of the top ten books in international relations in 1997. In 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science. Katzenstein has held numerous visiting fellowships. He continues to serve on the editorial boards and academic advisory committees of several journals and organizations both in the United States and abroad.

Since 1982 Katzenstein has served as the series editor of about 100 books that Cornell University Press has published under the imprint of the Cornell Studies in Political Economy.

Katzenstein received Cornell’s College of Arts and Science Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, and was made in 2005 one of Cornell University’s Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching.