Summary: Jeffrey T. Checkel is Professor of International Studies and Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His reviews and articles have appeared in numerous leading European and American journals. In addition, he is the author of Ideas and International Political Change: Soviet/Russian Behavior and the End of the Cold War (Yale University Press, 1997), editor of International Institutions and Socialization in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and co-editor (with Peter J. Katzenstein) of European Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2009). In addition to his position at SFU, Checkel is Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His current research focuses on the transnational and social dynamics of civil war.
