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Theodore Hopf

Associate Professor
Political Science
105E Mershon Center
614.292.3392
hopf.2@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1983)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Political Science (1989)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Hopf is interested in international relations theory, identity, methodology, and the former Soviet space.

Selected Publications
"Identity Relations and the Sino-Soviet Split," in Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists, ed. by Rawi Abdelal, Yoshiko Herrera, Alastair Johnston, and Rose McDermott (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Russia's European Choice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

"Ethnography and Rational Choice in David Laitin: From Equality to Subordination to Absence" (Qualitative Methods, 2006)

"Identities, Institutions, Information, and Interests: Moscow's Foreign Policy, 1945-2000," in Cambridge History of Russia, Volume 3, ed. by Ronald Grigor Suny (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Центр и региональные идентичности в России [The Center and Regional Identities in Russia], edited and introduced with Vladimir Gelman (European University in Saint Petersburg University Press, 2003)

Social Construction of International Politics. Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999 (Cornell University Press, 2002)

"Making the Future Inevitable: Legitimatizing, Naturalizating, and Stabilizing the Transition in Estonia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan" (European Journal of International Relations, 2002)

Understandings of Russian Foreign Policy, ed. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999)

"The Promise of Constructivism in IR Theory" (International Security, 1998)

Peripheral Visions: Deterrence Theory and American Foreign Policy in the Third World, 1965-1990 (University of Michigan Press, 1994)

Honors, Awards, and Service
Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (2006-08)

Member of the Editorial Board, Problems of Post-Communism (2006-08)
Senior Research Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (2006-07)

Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of International Relations and Development (2005-)

Finnish Institute for International Affairs and Finnish Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director, Research Project on the International Politics of Russia, Europe, and the United States (2003-08)

Marshall D. Shulman Award, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, for Social Construction of International Politics. Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow 1955 and 1999 (2003)

Ford Foundation, Collaborative Research Networks, "Situating Russia: Center-Region Identities in Russia" (2001-03)

Mershon Project
Reconstructing the Cold War

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Theodore Hopf
Associate Professor of Political Science
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