INTRODUCTION

International Organization 1980–86: Anticipating the Future

In honor of IO’s seventieth birthday the journal’s current editor, Jon Pevehouse, asked his predecessors to provide a list of the “greatest hits” published during their tenure. My term as editor ran from 1980 to 1986. I have decided to recall five articles that are admirable for anticipating the future in the world of scholarship and politics. Since it is doubtful that the journal’s readers could agree on the criteria by which to identify the “greatest hits,” this deviation from my marching orders may not lead into a total wasteland. Instead it alerts us to the gift of intellectual intuition and anticipation that is one important marker of superior scholarship.

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EDITOR BIOGRAPHY

Peter J. Katzenstein is Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His research and teaching lie at the intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics. Katzenstein's work addresses issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics. His current research interests focus on the politics of civilizations; on questions of public diplomacy, law, religion, and popular culture; regionalism in world politics; and German politics. He is the author, coauthor, editor and coeditor of about 40 books, edited volumes or monographs and over 100 articles or book chapters. Recent books include: Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East (Routledge, 2012). Sinicization and the Rise of China: Civilizational Processes beyond East and West (Routledge, 2012). Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives (Routledge, 2010). Katzenstein served as editor of International Organization and as President of the American Political Science Association (2008-09). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1987 and the American Philosophical Society in 2009. Since joining the Cornell Government Department in 1973 Katzenstein has chaired or been a member of more than one hundred dissertation committees. He received Cornell's College of Arts and Science Stephen and Margery Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993, and, in recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching, was made one of Cornell University's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows in 2004.