Stephen D. Krasner APSA Nominee Biography

Stephen D. Krasner is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at Stanford, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a Senior Fellow by courtesy at the Hoover Institution.  He was educated at Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard from which he received a Ph.D. in 1972.  He taught as an Assistant Professor at Harvard, an Associate Professor at UCLA, and has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981. 

He is the author or editor of six books and more than ninety articles.   His earlier work, including Defending the National Interest, International Regimes (editor), and Structural Conflict, as well as a number of articles in journals and edited volumes, focused on international political economy, especially the relationship between state power and international regimes.  His more recent work including Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy has been concerned with how the basic rules of the game for the international state system work, or quite frequently, do not work. 

He teaching has taught courses on international relations, international political economy,  international relations theory and policy making, and state-building.  He received a dean’s award for excellence in teaching in 1991. 

He was the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1991 and the Chair of the Board of Editors for that journal from 1996 to 1998.  He has also been a member of the board of editors of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, Foro Internacional, World Politics, The Review of International Studies, Journal of State Building and Intervention, and the American Interest.  He was coordinator for the International Relations panels for the 1981 APSA cconvention, coordinator for the Major Issues in Political Science panels for the 1987 APSA convention, and co-convention coordinator for the 1988 convention.  He served as a member of the APSA Council from 1985-1987.  At Stanford he has served as deputy director of the Freeman Spogli Institute, director of the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and department chair.  
 
He has had two periods of public service.  In 2001 and 2002 he served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department and at the National Security Council as Director for Governance and Development.  From February of 2005 until April of 2007 he was Director of Policy Planning at the State Department. 

He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (1987-88) and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2000-2001.  He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991.