Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor at Harvard University

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Biography

A French

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 citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris

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 and Nice

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 before studying at the Institut d'études politiques

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. He followed an academic career in the United States

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 and founded Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1968.

Hoffmann also participated as a political expert in the film The World According to Bush

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, dealing with the vicissitudes of the Bush administration after the 2000 presidential election

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As sole author

• 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 Era, Updated ed.,(Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).

Collaborative work

• 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).

Collaborative editorial work

• 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).

External links

• Homepage at Harvard