Hendrik Spruyt

Hendrik Spruyt is a Dutch-American political scientist. He is the Emeritus Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at Northwestern University.^[1] He is known for his research on state formation and sovereignty.^[2][3][4][5] Spruyt has advanced arguments for the emergence of the modern state that emphasize institutionalist aspects (as opposed to security and economic explanations).^[6]

In 1983, he obtained a Doctorandus from the University of Leiden, School of Law, and in 1991, he obtained his Ph. D in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.^[1]

Publications

• The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• Global Horizons: An Introduction to International Relations (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
• Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition (Cornell University Press, 2005)
• The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change (Princeton University Press, 1994)