Robert O. Keohane (1941-) is an international relations theorist. Keohane helped develop the neoliberal strand of international relations. He is currently a Professor of International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. International relations (IR), a branch of political science, is the study of foreign affairs of and relations among states within the international system, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and multinational corporations (MNCs). ... The term neoliberalism is used to describe a political-economic philosophy that had major implications for government policies beginning in the 1970s – and increasingly prominent since 1980 – that de-emphasizes or rejects positive government intervention in the economy, focusing instead on achieving progress and even social justice by encouraging free... The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (often truncated to Woodrow Wilson School or abbreviated WWS; known as Woody Woo in campus slang) is a professional school of public affairs at Princeton University. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located on an extensive campus mostly in the Borough of Princeton and partly in the Princeton Township in New Jersey, United States. ...

Robert O. Keohane has taught at Swarthmore College, and Stanford, Brandeis University, Harvard University and Duke University. At Harvard he was Stanfield Professor of International Peace, and at Duke he was the James B. Duke Professor of Political Science. Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ... Stanford redirects here. ... Brandeis redirects here. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or to the highest rank of nobility in various other European countries, including Portugal, Spain and France (in Italy, principe is... James Buchanan Duke (1856 - 1925) was a U.S. tobacco industrialist. ...

He is the author of many works, including After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton University Press, 1984), for which he was awarded the second annual Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for Ideas Improving World Order. The book is still considered the seminal work on international regimes.

He is also the author of International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory (Westview, 1989), co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Little, Brown, 1977, third edition, Addison-Wesley, 2001), and co-author (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research (Princeton, 1994).

Between 1974 and 1980 he was editor of the journal International Organization.

He was president of the International Studies Association, 1988-89, and of the American Political Science Association, 1999-2000.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center.

He was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2005. The Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science (in Swedish Skytteanska priset) was established in 1995 by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University. ...

He was listed as the most influential scholar of international relations in a 2005 Foreign Policy poll [1]. A foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how a particular country will interact with the other countries of the world. ...

He was the student of Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, and is the teacher of many other noted political scientists, including Andrew Moravscik, Beth Simmons, Lisa Martin Stanley Hoffmann is a teacher at Harvard University int the United States of America. ... Lisa Martin (born May 12, 1960) is a retired Australian long-distance runner. ...

Prof. Keohane is married to Nannerl O. Keohane, also a noted political scientist. Nannerl Overholser Keohane is an American political scientist. ...

External links

• Articles By Robert Keohane
• Keohane at Princeton