Peter J. Katzenstein is a German-American political scientist whose work connects comparative politics, international relations, political economy, security, and culture.
Research and teaching at the intersection of international relations and comparative politics.
Peter Joachim Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His scholarship examines political economy, security, culture, identity, and the ways regional and civilizational contexts shape world politics.
He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited over forty books and has published more than one hundred articles and book chapters. His recent work focuses on uncertainty, power, regions, civilizations, German politics, and America’s role in the international order.
His academic career includes leadership in the American Political Science Association, fellowships at major research institutes, honorary degrees, and recognition for research and teaching.
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“Worldviews and Chinese IR Theory,” with Feng Zhang, World
Economy and Politics (under review) submitted for review.
“Seeking our Peace in Parts, Prudently and Pragmatically,” H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, pp. 11-13. Symposium Honoring Joseph S. Nye, Jr. 9 January 2026 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/js-nye | Website: rjissf.org X: @HDiplo | BlueSky: @h-diplo.bsky.social | Mastodon: @HDiplo
“Of Gardens and Jungles in World Politics,” in Gunther Hellmann and Daniel Jacobi, eds., Rethinking World Order. Political Ordering as Global Ecology, pp. 24-50. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2026.
Entanglements
in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026).
“Is there a Chinese School of IR Theory?” Chinese Journal for International Politics 17, 3 (2024): 222 41. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poae012. Chinese translation is forthcoming.
Rating Roger: Tributes to Roger
Haydon (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 2022), coedited with Adithi S. Avadhani.
Peter J. Katzenstein, “Liberalism’s Antinomy: Endings as Beginnings?” in Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, eds. The Downfall of the American Order? pp. 165-83. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, eds. The Downfall of the American Order? Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
“Dan Philpott: Bridging Secular and Religious Politics in International Relations,” The Review of Faith & International Affairs 19, 4: 36-39.
Jonathan Kirshner and Peter J. Katzenstein, “Introduction,” in Peter J. Katzenstein and Jonathan Kirshner, eds. The Downfall of the American Order? pp. 1-15. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Peter J. Katzenstein, “Of Gardens, Forests, and Parks,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed. Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics, pp. 279-352. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Peter J. Katzenstein, “Worldviews in World Politics,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed. Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics, pp.1-69. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Peter J. Katzenstein, “Preface,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics, pp. ix-xvi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Peter J. Katzenstein, ed. Uncertainty and Its Discontents: Worldviews in World Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
“Protean Power: A Second Look,” International Theory, 2020 special issue dedicated to review Katzenstein and Seybert, eds., Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
“Crisis, What Crisis? Uncertainty, Risk and Financial Markets,” (with Stephen C. Nelson) in Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper and Myriam Dunn Cavelty, eds., The Politics and Science of Prevision: Governing and Probing the Future, pp. 141-57 (New York: Routledge, 2020).
“Fractures and Resilience of Liberal International Orders,” in Chuan Chu, ed., From Western-Centric to a Post-Western World: In Search of an Emerging Global Order in the 21st Century. (New York: Routledge, 2020).
“Regionalism and Geography in the Analysis of World Politics,” in Khoo Boo Teik and Jafar Suryomenggolo, eds., In Motion – Regions, States and Societies: Essays in honor of Takashi Shiraishi. (Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press, 2020).
“Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Mensch,” Charles Lewis Taylor and Bruce M. Russett, eds., Karl W. Deutsch: Pioneer in the Theory of International Relations, pp. 251-53. (Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2019).
“Das Problem heißt nicht Donald Trump: Die lange Vorgeschichte der amerikanischen Gegenwart,” WZB-Nachrichten No. 164 (June 2019): 7-9. Also published in English on the same journal’s website under the title “Trumpism is US.”
“Protean Power Reconsidered,” Comparative European Politics 25, 3 (Special Issue ‘The Protean Power of Europe,’ [based on Peter J. Katzenstein and Lucia Seybert, eds., Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics (Cambridge UP, 2018)], pp. 778-84.
Disjoined Partners: Austria and Germany since 1815 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976) reissued as a paperback as part of the press's 'Voices Revived Initiative.'
"The Second Coming? Reflections on a Global Theory of International Relations," The Chinese Journal of International Politics (2018): 373-90. Doi: 10.1093/cjip/poy012. https://academic.oup.com/cjip/article/11/4/373/5078032?guestAccessKey=46be8596-4327-40d8-836c-176a6c212129
"Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics". (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018). Co-edited with Lucia Seybert.
"Karl Deutsch: Teacher and Scholar," International Relations 28, 3 (2014):296-303
"Uncertainty and Risk and the Crisis of 2008,” (with Stephen Nelson), International Organization 48, 2 (May 2014): 361-92.
"Epilogue: Power.1-4 or The Emperor’s New Clothes,” in Bruce Jentleson and Louis Pauly, eds., Power in a Complex Global System, pp. 209-21 (New York: Routledge, 2014).
"Preface : The Fog of Peace,” in Chip Gagnon and Keith Brown, eds., Post-Conflict Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach. (New York: Routledge, 2014).
"Reading the Right Signals and Reading the Signals Right: IPE and the Financial Crisis of 2008", (with Stephen Nelson), Review of International Political Economy20, 5 (December 2013): 1101-31.
"Peter Katzenstein," in Piotr Dutkiewicz and Richard Sakawa, eds., 22 ideas to Fix the World: Conversations with the World’s Foremost Thinkers, 219-44. New York: NYU Press, 2013.
“The Movement of U.S. Criminal and Administrative Law: Processes of Transplanting and Translation,” (with Toby Goldbach and Benjamin Brake), Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 20, 1 (Winter 2013): 141-184.
“Lost in Translation? Non-State Actors and the Transnational Movement of Procedural Law” (with Benjamin T. Brake), International Organization, 67, 4 (October 2013): 725-57.
“Worlds in Collision: Uncertainty and Risk in Hard Times,” (with Stephen Nelson), in Miles Kahler and David Lake, eds., Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective, pp. 233-52. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013.
“States and Power as Ur-Force? Domestic Traditions and Embedded Actors in World Politics,” in Martha Finnemore and Judith Goldstein, eds., Back to Basics: State Power in a Contemporary World, pp. 139-56. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
"A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations", in Beijing Forum Academic Committee, ed., Listening to Wise People: Speeches Given by Famous People at the Beijing Forum (2004-2011), pp. 159-67. Peking: Peking University Press, 2012.
“Karl W. Deutsch: Teacher, Scholar, Mentor, Mensch,” Czech Sociological Review 48, 6 (December 2012), 1149-51.
http://sreview.soc.cas.cz/en/issue/162-sociologicky-casopis-czech-sociological-review-6-2012
"Japan and East Asia in the American Imperium,” in Takashi Shiraishi, ed., Engaging East Asian Integration: States, Markets and the Movement of People, pp. 13-45. Singapore: IDE-JETRO Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
“Preface” La política sin fronteras o la ubicuidad de lo distintivo: Ensayos Escogidos de Peter J. Katzenstein, pp. 9-12. Arturo Santa Cruz (ed.), México, D.F.: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas [CIDE], 2012.
La política sin fronteras o la ubicuidad de lo distintivo: Ensayos Escogidos de Peter J. Katzenstein, Arturo Santa Cruz (ed.), México, D.F.: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas [CIDE], 2012.
“Sinicization in Comparative Perspective,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West, pp. 209-41 (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West (New York: Routledge, 2012). Edited volume. {Chinese translation Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2018).
“Many Wests and Polymorphic Globalism,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East, pp. 207-47. (New York: Routledge, 2012).
“China’s Rise: Rupture, Return, or Recombination,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West, pp. 1-38 (New York: Routledge, 2012).
“The West as Anglo-America,” in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East, pp. 1-30. (New York: Routledge, 2012).
Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East (New York: Routledge, 2012). (Chinese translation Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2018).
“Eine Welt pluraler und pluralistischer Zivilisationen,” in Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Niklas Schörnig, Simone Wisotzki, and Jonas Wolff, eds., Auf dem Weg zu Just Peace Governance: Beiträge zum Auftakt des neuen Forschungsprogramms der HSFK, pp. 133-55. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2011.
“In the Service of State and Nation: Religion in East Asia” in Jack Snyder, ed., Religion and International Relations Theory, pp. 168-99. New York: Columbia University Press 2011. (With Il Hyun Cho).
“Toward Analytic Eclecticism: The Political Economy of an Integrated Europe,” in Dag Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen, eds., Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic Development, pp. 29-48. New York: Routledge, 2011. (With Rudra Sil)
“East Asia in World Politics: An Interview with Peter Katzenstein,” Peace Studies 18, 1 (Spring 2011): 7-24.
“Civilizational States, Secularisms and Religions,” in Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jonathan Van Antwerpen, eds., Rethinking Secularism, pp. 145-65. New York: Oxford University, 2011.
“De-Centering, not Discarding, the ‘Isms’: Some Friendly Amendments,” International Studies Quarterly 55 (2011): 481-85.(With Rudra Sil).
“Mondi in Collisione: Incertezza e Rischio in Tempi Difficili,” Stato e Mercato 93 (December 2011): 369-94. (With Stephen Nelson)
"Analytic Eclecticism: Not Perfect but Indispensible," in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Fall 2010. Symposium: Beyond paradigms and Research Programs, pp. 19-24. (with Rudra Sil).
"A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations," World Economics and Politics 363, 11:45-53.
"A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations," East Asian Policy 2, 2 (April/June 2010): 34-39.
"A World of Plural and Pluralist Civilizations: Multiple Actors, Traditions, and Practices," in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives, pp. 1-40 (New York: Routledge 2010).
"'Walls' between 'Those People'? Contrasting Perspectives on World Politics," Perspectives on Politics 8,1 (2010): 11-25.
Beyond Paradigms: Analytic Eclecticism in World Politics (New York: Palgrave, 2010), with Rudra Sil.
"Reconfiguring Problems and Mechanisms Across Research Traditions: The Role of Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics" (with Rudra Sil) Perspectives on World Politics 8,2 (June 2010): 411-31.
Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives (New York: Routledge 2010). Edited volume. (Chinese translation, Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2018. Arabic translation Fadhil Jatkar, Alamal Ma’arifah for the National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters, Kuwait, 2012).
“The Rise of China in the American Imperium: Americanization and Sinicization,” World Economics and Politics (Bejing), 5 (2009): 74-80.
"Mid-Atlantic: Sitting on the Knife's Sharp Edge." Review of International Political Economy. 16 (1), 122-135.
"Conclusion - European Identity in Context," with Jeffrey T. Checkel in Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., European Identity, pp. 213-28 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
"The Politicization of European Identities," with Jeffrey T. Checkel in Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., European Identity, pp. 1-25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
“Peter Katzenstein on anti-Americanism, Analytical Eclecticism, and Regional Powers”
"The Contributions of Eclectic Theorizing to the Study and Practice of International Relations," with Rudra Sil, in Chris Reus-Smit and Duncan Snidal, eds., Oxford Handbook of International Relations, pp. 109-30 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
"Japan in the American Imperium: Rethinking Security," Japan Focus, (October 2008).
Rethinking Japanese Security: Internal and External Dimensions (London: Routledge, 2008).
"Conclusion: Anti-Americanism and the Polyvalence of America," with Robert O. Keohane, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Koehane, eds., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics, pp. 306-16 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007).
"The Political Consequences of Anti-Americanism" with Robert O. Keohane, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics, pp. 273-305 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007).
"Varieties of Anti-Americanisms: A Framework for Analysis," with Robert O. Keohane, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics, pp. 9-38 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007).
"Introduction: The Politics of Anti-Americanisms," with Robert O. Keohane, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds., Anti-Americanisms in World Politics, pp. 1-6 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007).
"Regionalism Reconsidered" Journal of East Asian Studies 7 (2007): 395-412.
"Preface" to the Chinese Translation of Between Power and Plenty: Foreign Economic Policies of Advanced Industrial States, (December 2007).
Anti-Americanisms in World Politics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007), co-edited with Robert O. Keohane. Chinese translation 2008 from China Renmin University Press.
"East Asia- Beyond Japan," in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism, pp. 1-33 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006).
"Foreword" in Takashi Inoguchi, Akihiko Tanaka, Shigeto Sonoda, and Timure Dadabaev, eds., Human Beliefs and Values in Striding Asia: East Asia in Focus: Country Profiles, Thematic Analyses, and Sourcebook Based on the AsiaBarometer Survey of 2004, pp. 3-4 (Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2006).
"Anti-Americanisms: Biases as Diverse as the Country Itself," Policy Review 139 (October & November 2006): 25-38 (with Robert O. Keohane).
"Asia in the American Imperium," International Politics Quarterly, Guoji Zhengzi Yanjiu, No.2: 10-21.
"Transnational Religion in an Expanding Europe," with Timothy A. Byrnes, Perspectives on Politics 4,4 (December 2006): 679-94.
"Epilogue: Denmark and Small States," in John L. Campbell, John A. Hall, and Ove K. Pedersen, eds., National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: The Danish Experience, pp. 431-40 (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2006).
"Multiple Modernities as Limits to Secular Europeanization?" in Timothy A. Byrnes and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., Religion in an Expanding Europe, pp. 1-33 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
"Immovable Object? Japan's Security Policy in East Asia," with H.R. Friman, David Leheny and Nobuo Okawara, in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism, pp. 85-107 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006).
Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi. Japanese translation 2008 from Shosekikobo Hayama Publishing. Chinese translation 2008 from China Renmin University Press.
"Conclusion: Semisovereignty in United Germany," in Simon Green and William E. Paterson, eds. Governance in Contemporary Germany: The Semisovereign State Revisited, pp. 283-306 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
"Transformations in World Politics: The Intellectual Contributions of Ernst B. Haas," with John Gerard Ruggie, Robert O. Keohane, and Philippe C. Schmitter. Annual Review of Political Science Volume 8 (2005), pp. 271-96.
A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005). Chinese translation 2007 Peking University Press. Japanese translation 2007 Shoseki Koubou Hayama.
"Commentary: Globalization and State Power in World Politics," in Edward D. Mansfield and Richard Sisson, eds., The Evolution of Political Knowledge: Democracy, Autonomy, and Conflict in Comparative and International Politics, pp. 82-86 (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2004).
"Japan and Asian-Pacific Security,"with Nobuo Okawara, in J.J. Suh, Peter J. Katzenstein, and Allen Carlson, eds., Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency, pp. 97-130 (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2004).
"Rethinking Asian Security: A Case for Analytical Eclecticism," with Rudra Sil, in J.J. Suh, Peter J. Katzenstein, and Allen Carlson, eds., Rethinking Security in East Asia: Identity, Power and Efficiency, pp. 1-33 (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 2004).
"Same War- Different Views: Germany, Japan and Counter-Terrorism," International Organization 57,4 (Fall 2003): 731-60.
"Regional States: Japan and Asia, Germany in Europe," in Kozo Yamamura and Wolfgang Streeck, eds., The End of Diversity? Prospects for German and Japanese Capitalism, pp. 89-114 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003).
"Japan, Technology and Asian Regionalism in Comparative Perspective," in Giovanni Arrighi, Takeshi Hamashita and Mark Selden, eds., The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 Year Perspectives, pp. 214-58 (London: Routledge, 2003).
"European Enlargement and Institutional Hypocrisy," in Tanja Börzel and Rachel A. Cichowski, eds., The State of the Union: Law, Politics and Society, pp.269-90 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) (with Elena Iankova).
"Regionalism and Asia," in Shaun Breslin, Christopher W. Hughes, Nicola Phillips and Ben Rosamond, eds., New Regionalism in the Global Political Economy, pp. 104-18 (London and New York: Routledge, 2002).
"Area and Regional Studies in the United States," PS: Political Science and Politics (December 2001): 789-91.
"Combating Terrorism after September 11: Lessons that Europe and Asia Can Teach Us All," Earth Times www.earthtimes.org/nov/wtocombattingterrorismnove11_01.htm.
"Varieties of Asian Regionalisms," in Peter J. Katzenstein, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Kozo Kato and Yue Ming, Asian Regionalism, pp. 1-34 (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2000).
"Gezähmte Macht: Deutschland in Europa," in Michele Knodt and Beate Kohler-Koch, eds., Deutschland zwischen Europäisierung und Selbstbehauptung, pp. 57-84 (Frankfurt and New York: Campus, 2000).
"Regionalism and Asia," New Political Economy 5, 3 (2000): 353-68. Also published in Chinese translation in World Economics and Politics 2000/10: 75-80 (in Chinese). Republished in Shaun Breslin and Richard Higgott, eds., The International Relations of the Asia-Pacific," (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2010).
"Frieden und Entwicklung durch 'Soft Power'," in Ulrich Menzel, ed., Vom Ewigen Frieden und vom Wolhlstand der Nationen, pp. 347-61 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2000).
"Confidence, Trust, International Relations, and Lessons from Smaller Democracies," in Susan J. Pharr and Robert D. Putnam, eds., Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries?, pp. 121-48 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
Asian Regionalism, with Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Kozo Kato and Ming Yue (East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2000).
"Ein Blick auf Deutschland von draussen," in Max Kaase and Günther Schmid, eds., Eine Lernende Demokratic: 50 Jahre Bundesrepublik, pp. 563-81 (Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, 1999).
"Preface: International Organization at its Golden Anniversary," with Robert Keohane and Stephen Krasner, International Organization 52,4 (Autumn 1998): xv-xviii.
"International Organization and the Study of World Politics," with Robert O. Keohane and Stephen D. Krasner, International Organization 52, 4 (Autumn 1998): 645-85.
Mitteleuropa: Between Europe and Germany (Providence, RI: Berghahn Publishers, 1998), edited volume.
Left-Wing Violence and State Response: United States, Germany, Italy and Japan, 1960s-1990s, (Institute for European Studies, Cornell University, Working Paper 98.1, 1998).
International Organization at Fifty: Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics, 50th Anniversary Issue of International Organization 52, 4 (Fall 1998), coeditor with Robert Keohane and Stephen Krasner. Reissued under the title Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999). Chinese translation by Shanghai People's Publishing House 2003.
"Wirtschaftliche Integration und nationale Sicherheitspolitik in Asien," Kurt Spillmann, ed., Zeitgeschichtliche Hintergründe aktueller Konflikte VI: Vortragsreihe Sommersemester 1997, Züricher Beiträge zur Sicherheitspolitik und Konfliktforschung Heft Nr. 44, pp. 163-75 (Zurich: ETU, 1997).
"United Germany in an Integrating Europe," Current History 96,608 (March 1997): 116-23.
"The Cultural Foundations of Murakami's Polymorphic Liberalism," in Kozo Yamamura, ed., A Vision of a New Liberalism? Critical Essays on Murakami's Anticlassical Analysis (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997) pp. 23-40.
"Returning to Europe: Central Europe between Internationalization and Institutionalization," with Wlodek Aniol, Danes Brzica, Timothy A. Byrnes, Peter Gedeon, Hynek Jerabek, Zuzana Polackova, Ivo Samson, and Frantisek Zichin, in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., Tamed Power: Germany in Europe, pp. 195-250 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).
Network Power: Japan and Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), coedited with Takashi Shiraishi.
Tamed Power: Germany in Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997), edited volume.
"Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms and Policies," with Nobuo Okawara reprinted in Michael E. Brown, Sean M. Lynn-Jones and Steven E. Miller, eds., East Asian Security: An International Security Reader (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 265-99.
"Conclusion: National Security in a Changing World," in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security, pp. 498-537 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
"Norms, Identity, and Culture in National Security," with Ronald J. Jepperson and Alexander Wendt, in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security, pp. 33-75 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
"Introduction: Alternative Perspectives on National Security," in Peter J. Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security, pp. 1-32 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).
"Regionalism in Comparative Perspective." Cooperation and Conflict 31,2 (June 1996): 123-59. Reprinted in Philippe de Lombaerde and Frederki Söderbaum, eds., Regionalism. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 2013.
Cultural Norms and National Security: Police and Military in Postwar Japan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996). Chinese translation published 2002 by Xinhua Publishing House. Japanese translation published 2007 by Nihon Keizai Hyoron-sha.
The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996). Edited volume. Chinese translation Peking University Press: 2009.
"'Bullying,' 'Buying,' and 'Binding': US-Japanese Transnational Relations and Domestic Structures," in Thomas Risse-Kappen, ed., Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions, pp. 79-111 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
"Japanese Security Issues," in Craig Garby and Mary Brown Bullock, eds., Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?, pp. 53-76 (The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press: Washington D.C. and Baltimore, 1994).
"Japan as a Regional Power in Asia" (with Martin Rouse), in Jeffrey Frankel and Miles Kahler, eds., Regionalism and Rivalry: Japan and the United States in Pacific Asia, pp. 217-44 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
"A World of Regions: America, Europe and Asia," in Sophia University Institute of American and Canadian Studies, ed., Beginnings of the Soviet-German and the U.S.-Japanese Wars and 50 Years After (Sophia Symposium, 1991), pp. 63-85 (Tokyo, Sophia University, Institute for the Culture of German-Speaking Areas). Published also under the title "Shochiiki Kara Naru Sekai [World Consisting of Regions]," in Akio Nakai, Kimitada Miwa, Michio Royma, eds., Dokuso-NichiBei Kaisen to Gojunengo [World War II and Fifty Years After], pp. 113-38 (Tokyo: Nansosha: 1993).
Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms and Policy Responses in a Changing World (Ithaca: Cornell University, East Asia Program, Cornell East Asia Series, 1993), with Nobuo Okawara.
"Sho-Chiiki Kara Naru Atarashii Sekai: Ajia ni Okeru Nihon no Yakuwari" ["A World of Regions: Japan in Asia"] Asuteion no.24 (Spring 1992): 80-86.
"Japan's Security Policy: Political, Economic and Military Dimensions" with Nobuo Okawara, NIRA Research Output 5,1 (1992), pp. 23-35.
"Japan's Security Policy: Political, Economic and Military Dimensions" with Nobuo Okawara, The International Spectator 26,3 (July-September 1991): 103-18.
"Japan's Internal Security Policy" with Yutaka Tsujinaka, Leviathan 8 (1991): 145-64.
"Die Fesselung der deutschen Macht im internationalen System: Der Einigungsprozess 1989-90," in Bernhard Blanke and Hellmut Wollmann, eds., Die alte Bundesrepublik: Kontinuit und Wandel, pp. 68-80. Special issue of Leviathan 12/1991. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1991.
Defending the Japanese State: Structures, Norms and the Political Responses to Terrorism and Violent Social Protest in the 1970s and 1980s (Ithaca: Cornell University, East Asia Program, Cornell East Asia Series, 1991), with Yutaka Tsujinaka.
"Comparative Political Economy: Nationalization in France and Italy Thirty Years Later," in Sidney Tarrow, Theodore Lowi and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., Comparative Theory and Political Experience: Mario Einaudi and the Liberal Tradition, pp. 167-8 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990).
Analyzing Change in International Politics: The New Institutionalism and the Interpretative Approach (Cologne: Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, 1990. Discussion Paper 90/10).
"Der neue Institutionalismus und internationale Regime: Amerika, Japan, und Westdeutschland in der internationalen Politik," in Hans-Herman Hartwich, ed. Macht und Ohmacht politischer Institutionen, pp. 356-69 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1989).
"Kokusai Shisutemu ni okeru Shienkoku: Nihon to Nishidoitsu" (Supporters in the International System: Japan and Germany), in Ryutaro Komiya, ed., Kokusaika Suru Kigyo to Sekaikeizai (Internationalizing Industries and the World Economy) (Tokyo: Toyo Keizia Shimposha, 1989), pp. 4-20.
Industry and Politics in West Germany: Toward the Third Republic (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), edited volume.
"International Relations Theory and the Analysis of Change," in Ernst-Otto Czempiel and James N. Rosenau, eds., Global Changes and Theoretical Challenges: Approaches to World Politics for the 1990's, pp. 291-304 (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1989).
"Japan, Switzerland of the Far East?" in Takashi Inoguchi and Daniel I. Okimoto, eds., The Political Economy of Japan, pp. 275-304. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Corporatism and Change: Austria, Switzerland and the Politics of Industry (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984); paperback edition 1987; Spanish translation Servicio de Publicaciones, Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social 1987.
Policy and Politics in West Germany: The Growth of a Semi-Sovereign State. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987).
"A GDR National Consciousness?," in Thomas A. Baylis, ed., East Germany, West Germany, and the Soviet Union: Perspectives on a Changing Relationship, Western Societies Program, Occasional Paper, No. 18, Center for International Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, 1986), pp. 42-45.
"Das Entstehen sozialer Regelungsmechanismen: Das Spezifikum der österreichischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung," in Helmut Kramer and Felix Butschek, eds., Vom Nachzügler zum Vorbild ?: Österreichische Wirtschaft von 1945 bis 1985 (Stuttgart: Fischer, 1985), pp 39-48.
'The State in Austria and Switzerland," in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In, pp. 227-51 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985., translated into Japanese, Shinichi Nagao and nobutaka Nagaoka, translators and eds., Institutional Political Economy [Seido no Seiji Keizaigaku], pp. 123-153. Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2000.
Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985); 2nd printing 1986; 3rd printing 1987; Spanish translation Servicio de Publicaciones, Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social 1987; 4th Printing 1989; 5th Printing 1991. Chinese translation Jilin Publishing Group-Beijing Branch: 2009. The General Administration of Press and Publication of the Peoples Republic of China chose the 2009 translation of Small States in World Markets (Cornell University Press 1985) as one of the top "100 excellent books in the social sciences introduced into China in 2009."
Economic Dependence and Political Autonomy: The Small European States in the International Economy," in John Ruggie, ed., The Antinomies of Interdependence (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), pp. 91-130. translated under the title "I Piccoli Stati Europeinell'Economia Internazionale: Dipendenza Economica e Politiche Corporative," Rivista trimestrale di Scienza dell' Administrazione.
"West Germany as Number Two: Reflections on the German Model," in Andrei Markovits, ed., The Political Economy of West Germany: Modell Deutschland, pp. 199-215 (New York: Praeger, 1982).
"Commentary on 'Austrian Industrial Structure and Industrial Policy,'" in Sven W. Arndt, ed., The Political Economy of Austria, (Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1982), pp. 150-155.
"Comment on 'Strategic Aspects of the Political Assignment Problem in Open Economies,'" in Raymond E. Lombra and Willard E. Witte, eds., The Political Economy of Domestic and International Monetary Relations (Ames: Iowa State Press, 1982), pp. 130-134.
"Political Compensation for Economic Openness: Incomes Policy and Public Spending in the Small European States," in Kurt Steiner, ed., Tradition and Innovation in Contemporary Austria (Palo Alto: Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1982), pp. 99-108.
"Europe as a Number Two?" United States Senate, 96th Congress, Committee on Finance, Subcommittee on International Trade, Hearings, Part 2, December 5 and 9, 1980 (Washington, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981), pp. 110-113.
"Domestic Structures and Political Strategies: Austria in an Interdependent World," in Bruce Russett and Richard Merritt, eds., From Nation-State to Global Community: Essays in Honor of Karl W. Deutsch (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1981), pp. 252-278. A somewhat different version of this article was published under the title, "Dependence and Autonomy: Australia in an Interdependent World," Österreichische Zeitschrift für Aussenpolitik 19,4 (1979), pp. 243-256.
"Conclusion: Domestic Structures and Strategies of Foreign Economic Policy," in Between Power and Plenty, pp. 295-336 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978).
"Center-Periphery Relations in a Consociational Democracy: Austria and Kleinwalsertal," in Sidney Tarrow, Luigi Graziano and Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., Territorial Politics in Industrial Nations, pp. 123-169 (New York: Praeger, 1978).
John Zysman, Political Strategies for Industrial Order (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), in American Political Science Review 72, 4 (December 1978), pp. 1504-1506.
Territorial Politics in Industrial Nations (New York: Praeger, 1978) co-edited with S. Tarrow and L. Graziano, also published in Italian under the title Centro e Periferia Nelle Nazioni Industriali (Rome: Officina Edizioni, 1982).
"Ethnic Political Conflict in South Tyrol," in Milton J. Esman, ed., Ethnic Conflict in the Western World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977). pp. 287-323. Also reprinted in slightly altered form in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Aussenpolitik 16, 4 (1976), pp. 221-230 and 16, 5 (1976), pp. 275-291.
"The Last Old Nation: Austrian National Consciousness since 1945," Comparative Politics, 9, 2 (January 1977), pp. 147-171. A shortened version was also published under the title, "Das österreichische Nationalbewusstsein," in Journal für angewandte Sozialforschung 16, 3 (1976), pp. 2-14; 18, 1 (1977), pp. 21-22.
"West Germany's Place in American Foreign Policy: Pivot, Anchor or Broker?" in Richard Rosecrance, ed., America as an Ordinary Country: United States Foreign Policy and the Future (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976), pp. 110-135. A shortened version was also published under the title "Die Stellung der Bundersrepublik in der amerikanischen Aussenpolitik: Drehscheibe, Anker oder Makler?" Europa-Archiv 31, 11 (June 1976), pp. 347-356.
"Hare and Tortoise: The Race Toward Integration," Internation Organization 25, 2, pp. 290-295.
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