Friedrich Kratochwil

Friedrich Kratochwil Viktor ( born 1944 in Lund Castle ) is a German political scientist. He teaches International Politics at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy).

He is next to Alexander Wendt and Nicholas Onuf one of the representatives of Constructivism in International Relations. Central in his work the conceptualization of language as action. Language stands in close relation to norms and rules that give rise to inter - subjective meanings, which allow the actors, social ( ie in relation to others) to act.

Life

Kratochvil was born in Lund Castle ( former Czechoslovakia). After graduation in 1963 at the grammar Maximilian Gymnasium in Munich he studied eight semesters of philosophy, history and political science at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University. His university degree (MA ), he obtained at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in February 1969 in the field of International Relations. In January 1976 he received his doctorate at Princeton University in New Jersey and received his Doctor of Philosophy ( Ph.D.) in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations.

Kratochwil emigrated mid-1960s to the United States. There he taught at the American universities in Maryland, Princeton, Columbia, Delaware, and Pennsylvania and at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). By 2003, Friedrich Kratochwil was a professor of " International Politics " at the Scholl - Institute of the Ludwig -Maximilians- University of Munich.

From 2000-2004 he was editor of the European Journal of International Relations. He was also a member of the editorial boards of the journals International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, World Politics, and Millennium and is still a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International Relations of the Asia - Pacific.

Publications

Publications in English

  • International Order and Foreign Policy (Boulder, Colo.:. Westview Press, 1978 )
  • The human Conception of International Relations, Centre of International Studies, Princeton University, NJ, 1981.
  • International Law: Acontemporary Perspective (Boulder, Colo., Westview Press, 1985. ) Co-edited with Richard Falk, Princeton University and Saul Mendlvit, Rutgers Law School.
  • Rules, Norms and Decisions, On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International Relations and Domestic Society ( Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989), paperback edition March, 1991.
  • International Organization, A Reader ( together with Ed Mansfield, eds (New York:. HarperCollins, 1993)
  • The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory ( together with Yosef Lapid (ed), Boulder, Colo.:. Lynne Riener Publ, 1996)
  • " The Embarrassment of Changes: Neo- Realism as the Science of Realpolitik Without Politics ," Review of International Studies 19 (1993 ) 63-80
  • The Puzzles of Politics: Inquiries Into the Genesis and Transformation of International Relations, ( Routledge, 2010) ( collected essays )

Publications on German

  • Politics and Political Science, Journal of Politics, vol.18 (1971 ), no.2, pp.113 -23
  • America, did you do it better?, Journal of Politics, vol.20 (1972 ), no.1 pp.73 -81
  • What do we know about the change in the relations between state, market and society?, World trends, No.7, pp.114 - 132.
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