Peter J. Katzenstein
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Peter Katzenstein (b. February 17, 1945) is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He was educated in his native Germany. Katzenstein has received degrees from the London School of Economics, Swarthmore College, as well as a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Recently, Katzenstein was ranked by The Economist as the most influential scholar in international political economy.[citation needed] He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Katzenstein specializes in Asian (particularly Japanese) as well as European (particularly German) roles and norms in international relations. His main concentration lies in the study of culture, religion, identity, and regionalism in the interstate system.
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[edit] Personal life
Peter Katzenstein was born on February 17, 1945 in Hamburg, Germany. He is currently married with two children, and resides in Ithaca, NY, just minutes from his place of occupation as a professor at Cornell University.
[edit] Career
Katzenstein was educated in Germany in Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums before moving to the United States, where he ended up receiving a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1967, majoring in Political Science, Economics, and Literature. Six years later he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His first stint as teacher came in 1971 when he served as a Teaching Fellow in the Government Department at Harvard. The following year he became a part-time instructor in Comparative Politics of Western Europe at the University of Massachusetts. From 1973 to 1977 he served as an Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell, before becoming an Associate Professor for three years until 1980. From 1980 to 1987 he was a Professor of Government, before finally accepting the position he holds to this day as the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Katzenstein is fluent in five languages; German, French, Latin, Greek, and English.
[edit] Publications
His upcoming publication, Anti-Americanism in World Politics, is a joint venture with Robert Keohane, Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. His best known work was published in 2005, a result of thirteen years of study and writing, A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium has been compared to Samuel P. Huntington's famed The Clash of Civilizations.
