Ted Hopf
Office: 2176 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
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email: hopf.2@osu.edu
Ted Hopf
Associate Professor of Political Science
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)
