1. Robert Owen Keohane was born on October 3,1941 and is an American political scientist working within the fields of international relations and international political economy.
19 Facts About Robert Keohane
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Robert Keohane is Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and has taught at Swarthmore College, Duke University, Harvard University and Stanford University.
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Robert Keohane earned a BA, with honors, from Shimer College in 1961.
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Robert Keohane obtained his PhD from Harvard in 1966, one year after he joined the faculty of Swarthmore College.
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Robert Keohane was the student of Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann.
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Robert Keohane described Judith Shklar as his strongest intellectual mentor during his graduate studies.
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Robert Keohane has described Kenneth Waltz and Karl Polanyi as influences.
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Robert Keohane has taught at Swarthmore, Stanford, Brandeis, Harvard, and Duke.
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Robert Keohane is the author of many works, including After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, for which he was awarded the second annual University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for "Ideas Improving World Order".
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Robert Keohane describes the process of forming the theoretical insights of After Hegemony as follows during the late 1970s,.
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Robert Keohane has been characterized as a key figure in the development of a discipline of International Political Economy in the United States.
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Robert Keohane coined the term Hegemonic stability theory in a 1980 article for the notion that the international system is more likely to remain stable when a single nation-state is the dominant world power, or hegemon.
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Robert Keohane showed that international cooperation could be sustained through repeated interactions, transparency, and monitoring.
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Robert Keohane played an important role in steering the focus of the journal International Organization from scholarship focused on international organizations to a general IR journal; it is the leading journal in the field of IR.
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Robert Keohane is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Humanities Center.
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Robert Keohane was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science in 2005, and elected to the National Academy of Sciences that same year.
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Robert Keohane was listed as the most influential scholar of international relations in a 2005 Foreign Policy poll.
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Robert Keohane was awarded the 2016 Balzan Prize for International Relations: History and Theory.
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Robert Keohane is married to Nannerl O Robert Keohane, former president of Duke University and Wellesley College and herself a noted political scientist.