Hendrik Spruyt is a Dutch political scientist. He is the Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations at

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. He is known for his research on

state formation State formation is the process of the development of a centralized government structure in a situation where one did not exist prior to its development. State formation has been a study of many disciplines of the social sciences for a number o ...

and

sovereignty Sovereignty is the defining authority within individual consciousness, social construct, or territory. Sovereignty entails hierarchy within the state, as well as external autonomy for states. In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person ...

. Spruyt has advanced arguments for the emergence of the modern state that emphasize institutionalist aspects (as opposed to security and economic explanations). In 1983, he obtained a Doctorandus from the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of L ...

, School of Law, and in 1991, he obtained his Ph. D in Political Science from the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...

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)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Spruyt, Hendrik Dutch political scientists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dutch international relations scholars