Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann | |
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Born | Vienna,Austria | 27 November 1928
Died | 13 September 2015 | (aged 86)
Citizenship | French |
Alma mater | Sciences Po |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political science |
Institutions | Harvard University,School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences |
Stanley Hoffmann(27 November 1928 – 13 September 2015)[1]was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor atHarvard University,specializing in French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations.[2]
Biography
[edit]Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1928 and moved to France with his family the following year.[3]He was born to a distant American father and an Austrian mother. The Nazis classified Hoffmann and his mother as Jewish, forcing them to flee Paris in 1940. They fled to the village ofLamalou-les-Bainsin the south of France, where they spent the war hiding from the Gestapo.[4]AFrenchcitizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood betweenParisandNicebefore studying atSciences Po,graduating at the top of his class in 1948. He also obtained a doctorate at theFaculty of Law of Parisin 1953.[5]
In 1955, Hoffmann became an instructor in the Department of Government at Harvard. After some years, he receivedtenure.He was appointed C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France. He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1964.[6]He founded Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1969[4](later theMinda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies). His main fields of specialization were French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations. He was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Societyin 1981.[7]In 1997, Hoffmann was named the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor.[4]In addition to his teaching and prolific writing, Hoffmann also participated as an expert in the filmThe World According to Bush,dealing with the vicissitudes of the Bush administration after the2000 presidential election.In 1996, Hoffmann received theBalzan Prizefor Political Science: Contemporary International Relations from the International Balzan Foundation of Italy and Switzerland.[8]On September 13, 2015, Hoffmann died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 86.[4]
Major publications
[edit]As sole author
[edit]- Le MouvementPoujade,(Paris, Armand Collin, 1956)
- The State of War: Essays on the Theory and Practice of International Politics(Praeger, 1965).
- Gulliver's Troubles: or, the Setting of American Foreign Policy(McGraw-Hill, 1968).
- "International Organization and the International System,"International Organization,Vol. 24 No. 3, Summer 1970.
- Decline or Renewal? France since the 1930s(Viking Press, 1974).
- Primacy or World Order: American Foreign Policy since the Cold War(McGraw-Hill, 1978).
- Duties beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics(Syracuse University Press, 1981).
- Dead Ends: American Foreign Policy in the New Cold War(Ballinger Publishing, 1983).
- Janus and Minerva: Essays in the Theory and Practice of International Politics(Westview Press, 1987).
- The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994(Westview Press, 1995).
- World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era(Rowman & Littlefield, 1998).
- World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War EraUpdated ed.,(Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
Collaborative work
[edit]- In Search of France,with Charles Kindleberger, Laurence Wylie, Jesse Pitts, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, and François Goguel (Harvard University Press, 1963; Harper Torchbook ed., 1965).
- The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention,with Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba, and Raimo Vayrynen (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
- Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq,with Frédéric Bozo (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
As sole editor
[edit]- Contemporary Theory in International Relations(Prentice-Hall, 1960).
As co-editor
[edit]- The Relevance of International Law: Essays in honor of Leo Gross,co-edited with Karl W. Deutsch (Schenkman Publishing, 1968).
- Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: A Casebook,co-edited with Paschalis Kitromilides (Allen & Unwin, 1981).
- The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France,co-edited with William G. Andrews (State University of New York Press, 1981).
- The Marshall Plan: A Retrospective,co-edited with Charles Maier (Westview Press, 1984).
- The Rise of the Nazi Regime: Historical Reassessments,co-edited with Charles S. Maier and Andrew Gould (Westview Press, 1986).
- The Mitterrand Experiment: Continuity and Change in Modern France,co-edited with George Ross and Sylvia Malzacher (Polity, 1987).
- Rousseau on International Relations,co-edited with David P. Fidler (Oxford University Press, 1991).
- The New European Community: Decisionmaking and Institutional Change,co-edited with Robert O. Keohane (Westview Press, 1991).
- After the Cold War: International Institutions and State Strategies in Europe, 1989-1991,co-edited with Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye (Harvard University Press, 1993).
References
[edit]- ^Center for European Studies Communications (14 September 2015)."Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86".Harvard Gazette.Archivedfrom the original on 5 October 2017.
- ^Grimes, William (2015-09-13)."Stanley Hoffmann, Who Brought Passion to Foreign Policy Analysis, Dies at 86".The New York Times.ISSN0362-4331.Retrieved2023-02-03.
- ^"Stanley Hoffmann Named First Buttenwieser University Professor".news.harvard.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 1999-11-04.
- ^abcd"Stanley Hoffmann, 86".Harvard Gazette.2016-04-15.Retrieved2019-04-11.
- ^"Stanley Hoffmann - Prix Balzan science politique""licence de la Faculté de droit en 1948; doctorat en 1953".
- ^"Stanley Harry Hoffmann".American Academy of Arts & Sciences.Retrieved2022-06-13.
- ^"APS Member History".search.amphilsoc.org.Retrieved2022-06-13.
- ^"Professor Honored with Swiss-Italian Foundation's Prize,"Harvard Gazette,December 1996.
External links
[edit]- Homepage at Harvard
- Barrett, Michael J. (November 28, 1967)."Profile: Stanley Hoffmann".The Harvard Crimson.
- Magnus Feldman, Benoît Pelopidas:Moderation as Courage: The Legacy of Stanley Hoffmann as Scholar and Public IntellectualTocqueville21, 10 January 2018
- 1928 births
- 2015 deaths
- Austrian emigrants to France
- French political scientists
- Sciences Po alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- Historians of Vichy France
- French historians of World War II
- French male writers
- French international relations scholars
- European Union and European integration scholars
- Members of the American Philosophical Society