Jeffrey T. Checkel

PRIO Global Fellow

Additional position(s):
Professor and Chair of International Politics, European University Institute

Email: jeffrey.checkel@eui.eu

Jeffrey T. Checkel is an External Associate at PRIO.

Background

Jeff Checkel is Professor and Chair of International Politics at the European University Institute (EUI). He has been affiliated with PRIO since 2003, initially through the Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW). He was Working Group leader for the Centre's Group on Transnational and International Facets of Civil War (2006-2010) and Social Dynamics of Civil War (2011-2012). Checkel is also affiliated with PRIO's Research School on Peace and Conflict, offering doctoral seminars on civil wars, governance and qualitative methods. In 2014, he was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow.

For an up to date overview, see Checkel's staff page at EUI.

PRIO Departments

Current

Conditions of Violence and Peace

Historical

PRIO Projects

Finished:

Kin State Intervention in Civil War (project leader)

Events

Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:30-13:00 – Data Access, Transparency and Open Science: Can We Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
06 - 10 May 2013 – PhD Course: The Dynamics of Civil War
29 Apr 2013 - 03 May 2013 – PhD Course: Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 12:30-14:30 – What do we know about Civil War?
07 - 10 May 2012 – Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - a PhD course
02 - 05 May 2011 – PhD course on Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
04 - 05 Feb 2011 – Social Dynamics of Civil War
20 - 21 Aug 2010 – Mobilizing Across Borders: Transnational Dynamics of Civil War
03 - 06 May 2010 – PhD course on Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War
16 - 17 Oct 2008 – Transnationalism, Mechanisms and Civil War
26 - 30 May 2008 – Qualitative Methods and the Study of Civil War - CSCW/UiO doctoral course
Mon, 17 December 2007 – Transnationalism and Civil War
Thu, 30 November 2006 – Failed States and Regional Insecurity
Thu, 07 September 2006 – Transnational and International Facets of Civil War
Wed, 18 August 2004 – The Boundaries of Civil Wars
Tue, 18 November 2003 – Definitions of Civil War and the 'Terrorism-War Dichotmy'
Thu, 06 March 2003 – International Dimensions of Civil War - Opening Meeting WG

PRIO started tracking events online in 2007. This listing is not complete. Past events may be mentioned in our news archive.

All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2017) Socialization and violence: Introduction and framework, Journal of Peace Research 54(5): 592–605.

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2005) Tracing Causal Mechanisms, International Studies Review 8(2): 370–262.

Book Chapter

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2018) Methods in Constructivist Approaches, in Gheciu, Alexandra; & William C. Wohlforth, eds, The Oxford Handbook of International Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press (152–166).

Bennett, Andrew & Jeffrey T. Checkel (2014) Process tracing: from philosophical roots to best practices, in Bennett, Andrew; & Jeffrey T. Checkel, eds, Process Tracing: from Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (3–37).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2014) Mechanisms, process, and the study of international institutions, in Bennett, Andrew; & Jeffrey T. Checkel, eds, Process Tracing: from Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (74–97).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. & Andrew Bennett (2014) Beyond metaphors: standards, theory, and the 'where next' for process tracing, in Bennett, Andrew; & Jeffrey T. Checkel, eds, Process Tracing: from Metaphor to Analytic Tool. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (260–275).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2014) Identity, Europe, and the world beyond public spheres, in Thomas Risse, ed., European Public Spheres: Politics is Back. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (227–246).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2008) Process Tracing, in Klotz, Audie; & Deepa Prakash, eds, Qualitative Methods in International Relations: a Pluralist Guide. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (114–127).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2007) Social Mechanisms and the Quality of Cooperation: Are Europe and the EU Really All That Different?, in Crafting Cooperation: Regional Institutions in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: .

Zürn, Michael & Jeffrey T. Checkel (2007) Getting Socialized to Build Bridges: Constructivism and Rationalism, Europe and the Nation-State, in International Institutions and Socialization in Europe. (241–0).

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2006) Constructivism and EU Politics, in Handbook of European Union Politics. London: .

Edited Volume

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (ed.) (2013) Transnational Dynamics of Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Katzenstein, Peter J.; & Jeffrey T. Checkel, eds, (2009) European Identity. Cambridge. Contemporary European Politics.

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (ed.) (2007) International Institutions and Socialization in Europe. Cambridge.

Non-refereed Journal Article

Agnew, John; Jeffrey T. Checkel; Daniel Deudney; Jennifer Mitzen & Stefano Guzzini (2017) Symposium on Stefano Guzzini’s (ed.) The return of geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises, Cooperation and Conflict 52(3): 399–422.

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2008) Bridging the Gap? Connecting Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Study of Civil War, Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 6(1): 13–14.

Conference Paper

Checkel, Jeffrey T. 2008 Causal Mechanisms and Civil War, presented at 104th Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, , 30 August.

Checkel, Jeffrey T. 2008 Transnational Politics and Civil War, presented at 49th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, , March 2008.

Report - External Series

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2003) Is a More Democratic Europe Good News for Post-Soviet Societies, Policy Memo, 297. Washington, DC.

Book Review

Checkel, Jeffrey T. (2018) Review of Hopf, Ted; & Bentley B. Allan, eds, Making Identity Count: Building a National Identity Database, in Perspectives on Politics 16(4): 1225–1226.