Jeffrey Checkel

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. Before his current post he was a professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, a 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 include international relations theory, European integration, and qualitative methods. 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. Google Scholar ranks him as the 28th most-cited author in field of International Relations, 12th most-cited author in field of Qualitative Methods, and 2nd most-cited author in field of Constructivism.[2]