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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Charles E. Merriam Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2008 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Kathryn Sikkink is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, international relations, gender studies, philosophy, and economics. The subfields explored in their work include sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, philosophy, and economics and econometrics.

Their scholarship covers a range of topics such as war ethics and justification, Cambodian history and society, historical and contemporary political dynamics, gender, security, and conflict, conflict, peace, and violence in Colombia, global peace and security dynamics, and international relations and foreign policy.

Notable recent papers by Kathryn Sikkink include the following:

  • "How International Relations Theory on Norm Cascades Can Inform the Politics of Climate Change" (2023) published in PS Political Science & Politics
  • "Meditating on rights and responsibility: remarks on 'the limits and burdens of rights'" (2020) published in International Theory
  • "Gender and Transitional Justice: Explaining Global Trends" (2024) published in International Journal of Transitional Justice
  • "What Made John Ruggie's World Transformation Theory and Practice Hang Together" (2022) co-authored by Emanuel Adler, published in International Organization
  • "Response to Commentaries" (2020) published in King's Law Journal

Sikkink's frequent collaborators include Emanuel Adler, Martha Finnemore, Kenneth F. Scheve, Kenneth Schultz, and the Managing Editor.

Their work has been featured regularly in specific academic venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in International Organization, and additional publications in PS Political Science & Politics, International Theory, International Journal of Transitional Justice, and King's Law Journal.

Among book publications, Sikkink has published titles with Cambridge University Press and Yale University Press. These include International Norms, Moral Psychology, and Neuroscience (2021), cited 34 times, and The Hidden Face of Rights (2020), cited 4 times.

Kathryn Sikkink has received several awards during their career, including the Charles E. Merriam Award from the American Political Science Association in 2013, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2008, and fellowship at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    Margaret E. Keck;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Activists beyond borders

    Margaret E. Keck;Kathryn Sikkink

  • International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

    Martha Finnemore;Kathryn Sikkink

  • The power of human rights : international norms and domestic change

    Thomas Risse-Kappen;Steve C Ropp;Kathryn Angel Sikkink

  • TAKING STOCK: The Constructivist Research Program in International Relations and Comparative Politics

    Martha Finnemore;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics

    Margaret E. Keck;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina

    Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Power of Human Rights: The socialization of international human rights norms into domestic practices: introduction

    Thomas Risse;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    Francesca Polletta;Margaret E. Keck;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Human rights, principled issue-networks, and sovereignty in Latin America

    Kathryn Sikkink

  • Restructuring World Politics: Transnational Social Movements, Networks, and Norms

    Sanjeev Khagram;James V. Riker;Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Power of Human Rights

    Thomas Risse;Stephen C. Ropp;Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Persistent Power of Human Rights: From Commitment to Compliance

    Thomas Risse;Stephen C. Ropp;Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics

    Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Impact of Human Rights Trials in Latin America

    Kathryn Sikkink;Carrie Booth Walling

  • The Justice Cascade: The Evolution and Impact of Foreign Human Rights Trials in Latin America

    Ellen Lutz;Kathryn Sikkink

  • "Any More Bright Ideas?" The Ideational Turn of Comparative Political Economy@@@Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions and Political Change@@@Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Argentina and Brazil

    Mark M. Blyth;Judith Goldstein;Robert Keohane;Kathryn Sikkink

  • International Human Rights Law and Practice in Latin America

    Ellen L. Lutz;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries

    Hun Joon Kim;Kathryn Sikkink

  • Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina.

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  • Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News about Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?

    Ann Marie Clark;Kathryn Sikkink

  • From Pariah State to Global Protagonist: Argentina and the Struggle for International Human Rights

    Kathryn Sikkink

  • Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

    Kathryn Sikkink

  • The Power of Human Rights: International Norms and Domestic Change

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  • The Power of Human Rights: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

    Thomas Risse;Stephen C. Ropp;Kathryn Sikkink

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Risse
Thomas Risse Freie Universität Berlin
Martha Finnemore
Martha Finnemore George Washington University
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University

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