Stephen D. Krasner

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Stephen Krasner (born 1942) is currently the Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State. He is on leave from his position as a political science professor at Stanford University. Krasner received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1963, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He then earned his master's degree from Columbia University, and his PhD from Harvard University. One of his most famous accomplishments in the realm of Political Science was defining International Regimes as, "Implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and decision-making procedures around which actors’ expectations converge in a given area of international relations," in a special issue of the journal International Organization in 1982.

Bibliography

• Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investment and American Foreign Policy (1978)
• Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1985)
• Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999)

Edited Works:

• International Regimes (1983)
• Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (co-editor, 1999)
• Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities (2001).

[edit] External links

• Articles By Stephen Krasner
• State Department Biography
• Stanford University Homepage
• Beyond Intractability: International Regimes