Stanley Hoffmann

Political Scientist

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x208
E-Mail: shhoffm@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Former chairman of CES (1969–1994), Hoffmann is Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His many publications include Gulliver’s Troubles, or the Setting of American Foreign Policy (1968), Decline or Renewal? France Since the Thirties (1974), Primacy or World Order (1978), Duties Beyond Borders (1980), Janus and Minerva (1986), The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964–1994 (1995), The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (1996), World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era (1998), L’Amérique vraiment impériale? (2003), and Gulliver Unbound (2004). His new book, Chaos and Violence, was published in December of 2006. His next projects are a book on Albert Camus and a book on French political thought, institutions, and society from the Old Regime to the present. Hoffmann is co-chair of the Seminar on French Politics, Culture, and Society and is on the editorial board of French Politics, Culture and Society.