Alexander Wendt
| Alexander Wendt | |
|---|---|
| Born |
12 June 1958 Mainz, Germany |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | German |
| Fields | International Relations |
| Institutions | Ohio State University, University of Chicago, Dartmouth College, Yale University |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota, Macalester College |
| Doctoral advisor | Raymond Duvall |
| Doctoral students | Erik Ringmar |
| Known for | Constructivism (international relations) |
| Influences | Anthony Giddens, Roy Bhaskar |
Alexander Wendt (born 12 June 1958 in Mainz, West Germany) is a political scientist who is one of the core social constructivist scholars in the field of international relations. Wendt and scholars such as Nicholas Onuf, Peter J. Katzenstein, Emanuel Adler, Michael Barnett, Kathryn Sikkink, John Ruggie, Martha Finnemore, and others have, within a relatively short period, established constructivism as one of the major schools of thought in the field. A 2006 survey of American and Canadian International Relations scholars ranks Wendt as first among scholars who have "been doing the most interesting work in international relations in recent years." A 2011 survey of International Relations scholars worldwide ranked Wendt first in terms of having "produced the best work in the field of IR in the past 20 years".
Alexander Wendt was born in 1958 in Mainz in West Germany, attended high school in St. Paul Minnesota and studied political science and philosophy at Macalester College before receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1989, studying under Raymond "Bud" Duvall. Wendt taught at Yale University from 1989 to 1997, at Dartmouth College from 1997 to 1999, at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2004, and is currently the Ralph D. Mershon Professor of International Security at the Ohio State University. He is married to Jennifer Mitzen, also a member of the Ohio State political science faculty. He is currently working on two projects: arguing for the inevitability of a world state, and investigating the possible implications of quantum mechanics for social science. He is a famously passionate fan of the Metal genre and continues to pursue new music of the metal variety.
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