Professor of International Relations
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 220
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Fax [+39] 055 4685 201
Email: Friedrich.Kratochwil@eui.eu
Secretary: Maureen Lechleitner
Office: BF 263, Badia Fiesolana
Department of Political and Social Sciences
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 9
50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
Italy
Office Hours
Office hours are Tuesdays, 16.00 - 17.00.
Friedrich Kratochwil studied Classics, Philosophy and Political Science in Munich and received as a Fulbright scholar an MA in international Politics from Georgetown University (1969) and a PhD from Princeton (1976). He taught at Maryland, Princeton, Columbia, Denver and Pennsylvania, before returning (1995) to Germany and taking the chair in international Politics at the European University Institute in Florence.
He has published widely on International Relations, social theory, international organization and international law in US and European journals. His latest book (2011), just published by Routledge, is entitled The Puzzles of Politics.
Presently he is working on a manuscript entitled The Practice of (inter)national Politics.
Prof. Kratochwil was appointed to the Chair of International Relations, and joined the department on 1 April 2003.
Active: German, English, Spanish
Passive: French (Latin, Greek)
International Relations, Comparative Politics (Methodology), Political Theory, International Organization, International Law