PJKPeter J. KatzensteinRESEARCH ARCHIVE / CORNELL UNIVERSITY
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Politics.
Power.
Uncertainty.

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Profile

Research across established boundaries.

Peter Joachim Katzenstein is a German-American political scientist. His research and teaching connect international relations, comparative politics, international political economy, security, culture, and identity.

His current work examines power and uncertainty in world politics, regional and civilizational contexts, America’s role in the world, and German and European politics.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSCOMPARATIVE POLITICSPOLITICAL ECONOMYSECURITY & CULTUREGERMAN POLITICSWORLD REGIONS
Publications

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12 RECORDS
2022
Books

Uncertainty and Its Discontents

Worldviews in World Politics · Cambridge University Press

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2022
Edited Volumes

Downfall: The End of the American Order

Co-edited with Jonathan Kirshner · Cornell University Press

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2018
Edited Volumes

Protean Power

Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics; co-edited with Lucia A. Seybert · Cambridge University Press

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2012
Books

Anglo-America and Its Discontents

Civilizational Identities beyond West and East · Routledge

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2010
Books

Beyond Paradigms

Analytic Eclecticism in the Study of World Politics; with Rudra Sil · Palgrave Macmillan

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2005
Books

A World of Regions

Asia and Europe in the American Imperium · Cornell University Press

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1997
Books

Tamed Power

Germany in Europe · Cornell University Press

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1996
Edited Volumes

The Culture of National Security

Norms and Identity in World Politics · Columbia University Press

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1985
Books

Small States in World Markets

Industrial Policy in Europe · Cornell University Press

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1984
Books

Corporatism and Change

Austria, Switzerland, and the Politics of Industry · Cornell University Press

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1976
Articles & Chapters

International Organization and Foreign Policy

Selected early research in international relations · Academic journals

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Current
Current Research

Power, Uncertainty, and World Politics

Research on power, regions, civilizations, and political uncertainty · Ongoing research

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Academic record

  • Cornell University, Department of Government
  • Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professorship
  • Visiting Research Professor, WZB Berlin
  • International relations
  • Comparative politics
  • International political economy
  • Security, culture, and identity

Contact / University profile

321 White Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 · pjk2@cornell.edu