Princeton Professor Earns Prestigious Award

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton University professor Robert Keohane has received the 2016 Balzan Prize for International Relations, History and Theory, the university announced. The prize is awarded by the International Balzan Foundation, and includes a $790,000 prize. Half the prize money must be used to fund research projects by young scholars or scientists.

Keohane, a professor of public and international affairs, emeritus, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will receive his prize during an award ceremony in Berne, Switzerland, on Nov. 17.

The four subject areas for the prize change every year, and the only other winner for International Relations, History and Theory was Keohane’s mentor and Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard University. He received the award in 1996.

Keohane wrote “After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy” (1984) and “Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World” (2002). He is co-author of “Power and Interdependence” (third edition, 2001) and of “Designing Social Inquiry” (1994).

He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Read more about the prize at princeton.edu.

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