Alexander Wendt

• International Relations Theory
• Philosophy of Science

Professor Wendt has research and teaching interests in international relations theory, global governance, political theory, and the philosophy of social science. His current research focuses on the inevitability of a world state, and on the idea of a quantum social science. He is the author of Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and articles in International Organization, American Political Science Review, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, and Politics and Society. He has taught previously at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and the University of Chicago.

Selected Publications

2005.“Social Theory as Cartesian Science: An Auto-Critique from a Quantum Perspective,” in Stefano Guzzini and Anna Leander, eds., Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his Critics, Routledge, pp. 181-219.

2004. “The State as Person in International Theory,” Review of International Studies, 30(2): 289-316.

2003. "Why a World State is Inevitable: Teleology and the Logic of Anarchy." European Journal of International Relations 9(4): 491-542.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)