Alexander Wendt

Alexander Wendt is Mershon Professor of International Security and Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University. He is among the founders of the constructivist school of International Relations theory, and the author of Social Theory of International Politics and Quantum Mind and Social Science. Wendt was voted by peers in the 2017 TRIP Survey as the most influential international relations scholar of the past 20 years. In 2023 he shared the Skytte Prize in Political Science with Martha Finnemore, and in 2025 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has previously taught at Yale University, Dartmouth College, and University of Chicago.