Robert O Keohane

Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University. His work focuses on the role played by multilateral institutions in world politics. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-editor of Legalization in World Politics (2001) and of Anti-Americanisms in World Politics (2006). He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and as president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 1989, and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, 2005. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. B.A., Shimer College, Mount Carroll, Illinois (1961), "with great distinction" (equivalent to summa). M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1964 and 1966). Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1961-62) and Dissertation Fellowship (1964-65). Sumner Prize (best Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Government), 1966. Previous Positions: Instructor to Associate Professor, Swarthmore College, 1965-73. Associate to Full Professor, Stanford University, 1973-81. Professor, Brandeis University, 1981-85. Professor, then Stanfield Professor of International Peace, Harvard University, 1985-96.