Ted Hopf

• International Relations Theory
• Identity

Professor Hopf is interested in international relations theory, identity, methodology, and the former Soviet space. He has written a book on deterrence theory and Soviet foreign policy in the Third World (Peripheral Visions (University of Michigan Press, 1994) and edited a volume on contemporary Russian foreign policy, Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999). His new book, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999 (Cornell, 2002), applies a social cognitive account of identity to Soviet and Russian foreign policy. Other publications have appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Security, European Journal of International Relations, and Security Studies.

Selected Publications:

2002. Social Construction of International Politics. Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999Ithaca: Cornell University Press

2002. “Making the Future Inevitable: Legitimatizing, Naturalizating, and Stabilizing the Transition in Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan” European Journal of International Relations 8(3).

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)