Jeffrey Checkel

Jeffrey Checkel
Jeffrey Checkel
Born	Jeffrey T. Checkel; 1959
Nationality	American
Occupation	Professor of International Politics
Academic background
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic work
Discipline	International politics

Jeffrey T. Checkel is an American

academic associated with the theory of constructivist school of international relations.^[1] He is currently professor and chair in International Politics at the European University Institute, Florence

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Career

Checkel received his Bachelor of Science in

qualitative methods.^[2] His books include Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool, Transnational Dynamics of Civil War, European Identity, International Institutions and Socialization in Europe, and Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War. In 2015, he received the Humboldt Research Award and he is an associate editor of the Journal of Peace Research.^[5]^[6] Google Scholar ranks him as the 28th most-cited author in the field of International Relations, 12th most-cited author in the field of Qualitative Methods, and 2nd most-cited author in the field of Constructivism.^[2]

Selected publications

Bennett, A.& Checkel, J.T., Process tracing : from metaphor to analytic tool, Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015
Checkel, J. T.. Transnational dynamics of civil war. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Checkel, J.T.. International institutions and socialization in Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Checkel, J.T.. Ideas and international political change Soviet/Russian behavior and the end of the Cold War. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997