Michael Barnett
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Michael N. Barnett (born November 10, 1960) is a major constructivist
Constructivism in international relations
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scholar of international relations
International relations
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. His research has been in the areas of international organizations, international relations theory, and Middle Eastern politics. With Emanuel Adler, he reintroduced the concept of security community
Security community
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to international relations. In 2010, Barnett was named University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at The George Washington University. Most recently, Barnett held the Harold Stassen Chair of International Affairs in the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
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. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
, the University of Wisconsin, Macalester College
Macalester College
Macalester College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1874 as a Presbyterian-affiliated but nonsectarian college. Its first class entered September 15, 1885. The college is located on a campus in a historic residential neighborhood...
, Wellesley College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and the Dayan Center at Tel-Aviv University; and was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies
Graduate Institute of International Studies
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in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
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Selected articles
- "Peacebuilding: What is in a Name?" with Hunjoon Kim, Mandeline O’Donnell, and Laura Sitea. Global Governance 13 (2007)
- Power in International Politics With Raymond Duvall. International Organization, Vol. 59 (2005)
- "The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations." With Martha FinnemoreMartha FinnemoreMartha Gail Finnemore is a prominent constructivist scholar of international relations, and a professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. She is best known for her books: National Interests in International Society and The Purpose of Intervention...
. International Organization, Vol. 53 (1999)