Stanley Hoffmann (27 November 1928 – 13 September 2015)[1] was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, specializing in French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations.[2]

Stanley Hoffmann
Born(1928-11-27)27 November 1928
Vienna, Austria
Died13 September 2015(2015-09-13) (aged 86)
CitizenshipFrench
Alma materSciences Po
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical science
InstitutionsHarvard University, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

Biography edit

Hoffmann was born in Vienna in 1928 and moved to France with his family the following year.[3] He was born to a distant American father and an Austrian mother. The Nazis classified Hoffmann and his mother as Jewish, forcing them to flee Paris in 1940. They fled to the village of Lamalou-les-Bains in the south of France, where they spent the war hiding from the Gestapo.[4] A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at Sciences Po, graduating at the top of his class in 1948. He also obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Law of Paris in 1953.[5]

In 1955, Hoffmann became an instructor in the Department of Government at Harvard. After several years, he received tenure and was later appointed C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964.[6] He founded Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1969[4] (later the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies). His main fields of specialization were French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1981.[7] In 1997, Hoffmann was named the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor.[4] In addition to his teaching and prolific writing, Hoffmann also participated as an expert in the film The World According to Bush, dealing with the vicissitudes of the Bush administration after the 2000 presidential election. In 1996, Hoffmann received the Balzan Prize for Political Science: Contemporary International Relations from the International Balzan Foundation of Italy and Switzerland.[8] On September 13, 2015, Hoffmann died in Cambridge, Massachusetts at age 86.[4]

Major publications edit

As sole author edit

Collaborative work edit

  • In Search of France, with Charles Kindleberger, Laurence Wylie, Jesse Pitts, Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, and François Goguel (Harvard University Press, 1963; Harper Torchbook ed., 1965).
  • The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, with Robert C. Johansen, James P. Sterba, and Raimo Vayrynen (University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
  • Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq, with Frédéric Bozo (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).

As sole editor edit

  • Contemporary Theory in International Relations (Prentice-Hall, 1960).

As co-editor edit

References edit

  1. ^ Center for European Studies Communications (14 September 2015). "Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard professor and scholar, 86". Harvard Gazette. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017.
  2. ^ Grimes, William (2015-09-13). "Stanley Hoffmann, Who Brought Passion to Foreign Policy Analysis, Dies at 86". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  3. ^ "Stanley Hoffmann Named First Buttenwieser University Professor". news.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 1999-11-04.
  4. ^ a b c d "Stanley Hoffmann, 86". Harvard Gazette. 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2019-04-11.
  5. ^ "Stanley Hoffmann - Prix Balzan science politique" "licence de la Faculté de droit en 1948; doctorat en 1953".
  6. ^ "Stanley Harry Hoffmann". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  7. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  8. ^ "Professor Honored with Swiss-Italian Foundation's Prize," Harvard Gazette, December 1996.

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