LECTURE BY ROBERT KEOHANE

“What changes in the industrial economy of Europe and the United States will be necessary to achieve climate neutrality?”

Robert Owen Coghlan is an American academic who, after the publication of his influential book After Hegemony (1984), became frequently associated with the theory of neoliberal institutionalism in international relations. He is currently a professor of political science at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Princeton University. In 2011, a study of international relations scholars ranked Keohane as the second most influential and quality scholar of the last twenty years.

Keohane is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and has held a Guggenheim Grant and a grant from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2005, he was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and elected to the National Academy of Sciences the same year.

Among the political scientists who were his students are Lisa Martin, Andrew Moravcik, Lina Moseley, Beth Simmons, Ronald Mitchell, and Helen W. Milner. A well-known student with a different profession is Fareed Zakaria.

In 2012, Keohane received Harvard’s Centennial Medal.

In 2014, he was awarded the James Madison Prize of the American Political Science Association.

He was awarded the Balzan Prize for International Relations: History and Theory.