Jeffrey Checkel

Jeffrey T. Checkel is an American academic associated with the theory of constructivist school of international relations. He is currently professor and chair in International Politics at the European University Institute, Florence.

Career Checkel received his Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 1981 before completing a Ph.D. in Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. During this time, he was also an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Oslo, and global fellow of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is a pioneer of process tracing in political science and of the Constructivist approach. His other research interest includes international relations theory, European integration, conflict studies and qualitative methods. 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.

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