Stephen D. Krasner

Stephen David Krasner (born February 15, 1942) is an American academic and former diplomat. Krasner has been a professor of international relations at Stanford University since 1981, and served as the Director of Policy Planning from 2005 to April 2007 while on leave from Stanford.[1]

For the sports journalist and writer, see Stephen Krasner.
Stephen Krasner
Director of Policy Planning
In office
February 4, 2005 – April 20, 2007
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byMitchell B. Reiss
Succeeded byDavid F. Gordon
Personal details
Born
Stephen David Krasner

(1942-02-15) February 15, 1942
Alma materCornell University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Harvard University (PhD)

A realist, he is known for his contributions to International Relations and International Political Economy.[2][3][4]

Education

Krasner was born on February 15, 1942, in New York City.[5] He was raised in Manhattan.[6] He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of History at Cornell University in 1963, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He earned his master's degree from Columbia University. In 1972, he completed his PhD at Harvard University.[6] He did his PhD dissertation on the international coffee market.[6] At Harvard University, he was influenced by Albert Hirschman.[6]

Career

Before coming to Stanford University in 1981, Krasner taught at Harvard University and University of California, Los Angeles. He was the editor of International Organization from 1986 to 1992.[7][6]

Krasner is the author of six books and over ninety articles. He has taught courses on international relations, international political economy, international relations theory, policy making, and state-building at Stanford University. He received a dean’s award for excellence in teaching in 1991. At Stanford University, Krasner has been an advisor to Daniel Drezner[8] and

Krasner was a key figure in establishing Regime theory as a prominent topic of study in IR, in part through the 1983 edited collection International Regimes.[9][10] Krasner is a key figure in the development of Hegemonic stability theory.[2][11] Krasner was influenced by Robert Gilpin.[6]

He has written extensively about statehood and sovereignty.

Krasner is credited with incorporating the idea of punctuated equilibrium into the social sciences and contributing to critical juncture theory.[12]

Krasner is a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Krasner was named Director of Policy Planning in the State Department by his former Stanford University colleague Condoleezza Rice.[6]

Bibliography
  • Are Bureaucracies Important? (1972)
  • State Power and the Structure of International Trade" (1976)
  • Defending the National Interest: Raw Materials Investment and American Foreign Policy (1978)
  • Structural Conflict: The Third World Against Global Liberalism (1985)
  • Compromising Westphalia (1996)
  • Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999)
  • Addressing State Failure (2005)
  • Building Democracy After Conflict: The Case For Shared Sovereignty (2005)
  • Power, the State, and Sovereignty: Essays on International Relations (2009)

Edited works
  • International Regimes (1983)
  • Exploration and Contestation in the Study of World Politics (co-editor, 1999)
  • Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities (2001)

Selected articles
  • "Think Again: Sovereignty". Foreign Policy. November 20, 2009.
  • Krasner, Stephen D. 1984. "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics." Comparative Politics 16(2): 223–46;
  • Krasner, Stephen D. 1988. "Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 21(1): 66–94.

References
  1. Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs. "Krasner, Stephen". 2001-2009.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  2. Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 72–74. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
  3. Keohane, Robert O. (2013), Finnemore, Martha; Goldstein, Judith (eds.), "Stephen Krasner: Subversive Realist", Back to Basics, Oxford University Press, pp. 28–52, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970087.003.0003, ISBN 978-0-19-997008-7
  4. Keohane, Robert O. (1997). "Problematic Lucidity: Stephen Krasner's "State Power and the Structure of International Trade"". World Politics. 50 (1): 150–170. doi:10.1017/S0043887100014751. ISSN 0043-8871. JSTOR 25054030. S2CID 146511558.
  5. "Conversation with History - Stephen Krasner, 2003". globetrotter.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  6. Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 97–99. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
  7. "FSI | CDDRL - Stephen D. Krasner". cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  8. Drezner, Daniel W. (1999). The Sanctions Paradox: Economic Statecraft and International Relations. Cambridge University Press. pp. xv. ISBN 978-0-521-64415-0.
  9. Cohen, Benjamin J. (2008). International Political Economy: An Intellectual History. Princeton University Press. pp. 96, 100. ISBN 978-0-691-13569-4.
  10. Martin, Lisa L.; Simmons, Beth A. (1998). "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions". International Organization. 52 (4): 729–757. doi:10.1162/002081898550734. ISSN 1531-5088. S2CID 19589300.
  11. Webb, Michael C.; Krasner, Stephen D. (1989). "Hegemonic Stability Theory: An Empirical Assessment". Review of International Studies. 15 (2): 183–198. doi:10.1017/S0260210500112999. ISSN 0260-2105. JSTOR 20097178. S2CID 144205698.
  12. Stephen D. Krasner, "Approaches to the State: Alternative Conceptions and Historical Dynamics." Comparative Politics 16(2)(1984): 223–46; Stephen D. Krasner, "Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective." Comparative Political Studies 21(1)(1988): 66–94.
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