G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School. He previously taught at Georgetown (2000-2004), the University of Pennsylvania (1994-2000), and started his career at Princeton (1984-92). He has also held posts at the State Department (Policy Planning staff) (1991-92) and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Senior Associate) (1992-93). Ikenberry has also been a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2002). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1985.

Professor Ikenberry has held several fellowships. During 2002-04, Professor Ikenberry was a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. During 1998-99, Professor Ikenberry was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., which is part of the Smithsonian Institution. During 1997-98, Professor Ikenberry was an Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and spent the year affiliated with the Institute for International Policy Studies in Tokyo. Ikenberry has also been awarded major grants by the U.S.-Japan Foundation and the Committee for Global Partnership for a multi-year project on “United States and Japanese Collaboration on Regional Security and Governance.”

Professor Ikenberry is currently writing a book about the politics of international rules and institutions in the era of American unipolarity.

Professor Ikenberry is the author of After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), which won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the best book in international history and politics. The book has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Chinese. Professor Ikenberry has also co-authored a book entitled State Power and the World Economy, which was published in 2002 by Norton Press.

Professor Ikenberry is also the author of Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Cornell, 1988); and The State, with John A. Hall (Minnesota, 1989) which has been translated into several languages, including French, Spanish, and Japanese. He is author and co-editor of The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, with Michael Mastanduno and David Lake (Cornell, 1988). He has also edited a volume, with Michael Doyle, on New Thinking in International Relations (Westview, 1997). He is co-editor with Michael Cox and Takashi Inoguchi of U.S. Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts (Oxford, 2000) and co-editor with Michael Mastanduno of International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (Columbia, 2003). This volume assesses the relevance of Western theories of international relations for understanding the emerging relations between Japan, China, and the United States. He has recently edited a book entitled American Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power. (Cornell, 2002). He has published in all the major academic journals of international relations and written widely in policy journals.

Among many activities, Professor Ikenberry has served as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04. He chaired a study group on "Democracy and Discontent" at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1993-94, served as a senior staff member on the 1992 Carnegie Commission on the Reorganization of Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy (the "Holbrooke Commission"), and co-authored Atlantic Frontiers: A New Agenda for U.S.-EC Relations, (Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1993). He has lectured throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He is also the reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.

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