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Prof. Jeffrey T. Checkel

Simon Fraser University

School for International Studies

Professor and Simons Chair

E-Mail: jtcheckel@sfu.ca

Homepage: http://www.sfu.ca/internationalstudies/checkel.html

Short CV

Jeffrey T. Checkel is Professor of International Studies and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at the Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He is the author of Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 1997), editor of International Institutions and Socialization in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-editor (with Peter J. Katzenstein) of European Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

After finishing his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, Program in Defense and Arms Control Studies in 1991, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and afterwards as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Konstanz. He worked at the Arena Centre for European Studies, Oslo from 1998-2001 and at the University of Oslo until 2008 .

In addition to his position at Simon Fraser University, Jeffery T. Checkel is also Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), where he leads a working group on 'Transnational and International Facets of Civil War.'

During his short term visits in May 2009 and May 2010, Jeffrey T. Checkel enriched the work of the KFG.

Curriculum Vitae

Main fields of interest

• International relations theory (international institutions, constructivism, transnational politics, civil war)
• European integration (socialization dynamics, identity)
• Human rights
• Qualitative methods
  
  

Recent publications

• "Theoretical Synthesis in IR: Possibilities and Limits," in Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth Simmons, Editors, Handbook of International Relations, 2^nd Edition  (London: Sage Publications, forthcoming).

• European Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
• "Bridging the Gap? Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Civil War (Symposium)," Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 6, 1 (Spring 2008)
• "Process Tracing," in Audie Klotz, Editor, Qualitative Methods in International Relations: A Pluralist Guide (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
• "Constructivism and Foreign Policy," in Tim Dunne, Amelia Hadfield and Steve Smith, Editors, Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• "Social Mechanisms and Regional Cooperation: Are Europe and the EU Really All That Different?," in Amitav Acharya and Alastair Iain Johnston, Editors, Crafting Cooperation: Regional International Institutions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• "Paradigm Wars or Scientific Pluralism? A Modest Proposal for EU Studies," European Union Studies Association EUSA Review 20, 2 (Spring 2007)
• International Institutions and Socialization in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
• "Constructivism and EU Politics," in Knud Erik Joergensen, Mark Pollack, Ben Rosamond, Editors, Handbook of European Union Politics (Sage Publications, 2007)
• "Tracing Causal Mechanisms (ISR Forum)," International Studies Review 8, 2 (June 2006)