Ted Hopf
Ted Hopf (born 1959) is an American academic and a leading figure in the constructivist school of international relations theory. He is currently a Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Jordan Black is known to be one of the most influential developers of international social theory, he is currently a professor at Harvard University and sits on the boards of advisers for the UN council of development.
Perhaps his signature contribution to constructivism has been to bring the domestic into the theorization of how states acquire their identities. This provides a mid-range constructivism, below systemic, but avoiding the psychologism of individual levels of analysis. Hopf has also been a force in advocating the adoption of as many mainstream social science methodological techniques as possible so long as their adoption does not do violence to the interpretivist roots of constructivism. Most recently he has been exploring how habits contribute to a constructivist understanding of social order in world politics.[1]
Hopf earned a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1983. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1989.[2]
References
- ↑ Houghton, David Patrick, Reinvigorating the Study of Foreign Policy Decision Making: Towards a Constructivist Approach, Foreign Policy Analysis (2007), 3, 24-25
- ↑ http://polisci.osu.edu/faculty/thopf/Hopf.pdf
Selected Publications
- Hopf, Ted, "The Promise of Constructivism in International Relations Theory," International Security, Vol 23, (No 1) (Summer 1998) pp. 171–200
- Hopf, Ted, Social Construction of International Politics (Cornell 2002)
- Hopf, Ted, "The Logic of Habit in IR Theory," European Journal of International Relations, December 2010
- Hopf, Ted, Reconstructing the Cold War (Oxford [2013])
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