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2020 Skytte Prize to Peter J. Katzenstein
Peter J. Katzenstein , Cornell University, USA, has been named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. He is awarded the prize for “furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy”.
Katzenstein, born in Hamburg, Germany, has made pioneering contributions in research on the international system and international relations in which he has shown how national culture and history shape national perspectives on security and relations with other countries. By the 1980s, his work had laid the foundations of the field of political economy, in which relations between government, the market, and labor institutions are central. In his empirical research, Peter Katzenstein has specialized in Europe, especially Germany, Asia, especially Japan, and the United States. Katzenstein argues that, rather than moving towards greater congruence, the distinctiveness of national societies is being constantly reproduced, even in a globalized and digitalized world.
The prize ceremony will take place in Uppsala on 3 October 2020.
About the Johan Skytte Prize
In 1622, Johan Skytte, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, established the Johan Skytte chair in Eloquence and Government, which is probably the world’s oldest active professorship in political science. The lands included in the original donation continue to finance research and the Johan Skytte Prize. The prize money of SEK 500,000 is awarded every year by the Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University to the person who has made the “most valuable contribution to political science”.
Read more about the prize on the Skytte Foundation's website.
For further information, please contact: Michal Smrek, Master of Ceremonies for the Skytte Prize, +46 70 0664926, michal@skytteprize.com or Li Bennich-Björkman, Johan Skytte Professor in Political Science and Eloquence, Chair of the Prize Committee, + 46 70-1679504 Li.Bennich-Bjorkman@statsvet.uu.se
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