Profile
 

Stefano Guzzini is the Chair of Political and Social Theory, as well as Swiss Co-chair in Federalism, Democracy and International Governance at the European University Institute, Florence. He is on long-term leave from Uppsala University and the Danish Institute for International Studies. He previously taught at the Central European University (Budapest, 1994-2000) and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, 2013-2023), and was guest professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and the Universities of Bremen, Ljubljana and Lublin. He was a fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies, the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, and the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies / Department of Government, Cornell University (2016-17). 

He served as the editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development (2004-2008) and co-editor of International Theory (2019-2023), as a member of the Governing Council of the International Studies Association (2004-2005) and of the Steering Committee of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR, now EISA (2004-2010). From 2013-2019, he served as President of the Central and East European International Studies Association (CEEISA). He is currently Associate Editor of Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Bristol Studies in International Theory.

Selected Publications
 

Monographs and edited volumes

• Power, realism and constructivism. Routledge, 2013. (Unanimous) Winner of the 2014 International Studies Association Theory Section Book Award.
• The Return of Geopolitics in Europe? Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises. Cambridge, 2012. Portuguese translation 2020, Ed. UNESP.
• The Diffusion of Power in Global Governance: International Political Economy meets Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 (co-edited with Iver Neumann).
• Foreign Policy Analysis, 5 vols. Sage, 2011 (co-edited with Walter Carlsnaes).
• Constructivism and International Relations: Alexander Wendt and his critics. Routledge, 2006 (co-edited with Anna Leander).
• Contemporary Security Analyses and Copenhagen Peace Research. Routledge, 2004 (co-edited with Dietrich Jung).
• Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold. Routledge, 1998. Translations into Chinese (2000), Romanian (2000), Czech (2004), Italian (2008), Polish (2017).

Articles

• '“Vision of Itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis: From the Role of Ideas to Identity and Recognition”' Teoria Polityki 6 (2022), pp. 33-57.
• ‘Embrace IR anxieties (Or: Morgenthau’s approach to power, and the challenge of combining the three domains of IR theorizing)’, International Studies Review, vol. 22, no. 2 (2020), pp. 268-288.
• ‘Militarizing politics, essentializing identities: Interpretivist process tracing and the power of geopolitics’, Cooperation and Conflict, vol. 52, no. 3 (2017), pp. 423-445.
• ‘Power and cause’, Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 20, no. 4 (2017), pp. 737-759.
• ‘What kind of theory – if any – is securitization?’ (Forum with Thierry Balzacq, Heikki Patomäki, Michael Williams and Ole Wæver), International Relations, vol. 29, no. 1 (2016), pp. 96-136. 
• ‘The ends of International Relations Theory: stages of reflexivity and modes of theorising’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 19, no. 3 (2013), pp. 521-541.
• ‘Securitisation as a causal mechanism’, Security Dialogue, vol. 42, no. 4-5 (2011), pp. 329-341.
• ‘The concept of power: a constructivist analysis’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 33, no. 3 (2005), pp. 495-521. Selected by the editors of Millennium for their 40th anniversary collection as one of the seven most ground-breaking articles ever published there (chosen for the decade 2001-2010)
• ‘The enduring dilemmas of realism in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 10, no. 4 (2004), pp. 533-568.
• ‚In den IB nichts Neues? Der 11. September und die Rollenverständnisse der Disziplin‘, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, vol. 11, no. 1 (2004), pp. 135-146.
• ‘Il costruttivismo e il ruolo delle istituzioni nelle relazioni internazionali’, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, vol. 44. no. 2 (2003), pp. 215-235.
• ‘Foreign Policy without diplomacy: The Bush administration at a crossroads’, International Relations, vol. 16, no. 2 (2002), pp. 291-297.
• ‘A reconstruction of constructivism in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, vol. 6, no. 2 (2000), pp. 147-182.
• ‘The “Long Night of the First Republic”: years of clientelistic implosion in Italy’, Review of International Political Economy, vol. 2, no. 1 (1995), pp. 27-61 (simultaneously published in French: ‘La longue nuit de la Première République. L'implosion clientéliste en Italie’, Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 44, no. 6 (1994), pp. 979-1013).
• ‘Structural Power: The Limits of Neorealist Power Analysis’, International Organization, vol. 47, no. 3 (1993), pp. 443-78.

Book chapters

• Power in World Politics, in William Thompson, ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press, 2022.
• ‘Ideas and Identity from Rationalism to Theories of Recognition’, in Patrick A. Mello and Falk Ostermann, eds, The Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Methods. Routledge, 2022, pp. 21-38.
• ‘Saving Realist Prudence’, in J. Samuel Barkin, ed., The Social Construction of State Power: Applying Realist Constructivism. Bristol UP, 2020, pp. 217-232.
• ‘Max Weber’s power’, in Richard Ned Lebow, ed., Max Weber and International Relations. Cambridge UP, 2017, pp. 97-118.
• ‘International political sociology, or: the social ontology and power politics of process’, in Xavier Guillaume & Pinar Bilgin, eds, Routledge Handbook of International Political Sociology, Routledge, 2017, pp. 366-375.
• ‘Power’, in Felix Berenskoetter, ed., Concepts in World Politics. Sage, 2016, pp. 23-40. 
• ‘Liberal international order’, in Tim Dunne and Trine Flockhart, eds, Liberal World Orders. Oxford UP, 2013, pp. 247-256. 
• ‘Power: Bourdieu’s field analysis of relational capital, misrecognition and domination”, in Rebecca Adler-Nissen, ed., Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking key concepts, Routledge, 2013, pp. 79-91. 
• ‘Maintenir les dilemmes de la modernité en suspens: analyse et éthique poststructuralistes en Relations Internationales’, in Klaus-Gerd Giesen, ed., L'éthique de l'espace politique mondial: métissages disciplinaires. Bruylant, 1997, pp. 247-285.