Emanuel Adler, (born 1947) is a

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an professor of

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and the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies at the

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. He is also the editor of ''

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'' and an honorary professor in the Department of Political Science at the

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. Adler moved to Israel in 1970, where he studied at the

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, where he got a BA in History and International Relations and an MA in International Relations. In 1976 he moved to the United States, and became doctor in Political Science at

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in 1982. Adler is associated with constructivism in

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. His most cited article, "Seizing the middle ground: Constructivism in world politics" argues that constructivism occupies the middle ground between rationalist approaches (such as realism and liberalism) and interpretive approaches (such as

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, poststructuralist and critical approaches). In 2013, he was made a Fellow of the

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. In 2017, he opened the Latin American Political Science Congress.Uruguay como comunidad de práctica democrática
- Adolfo Garcé, El Observador, 26 July 2017

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External links

Official Website of Emanuel Adler
1947 births Living people Uruguayan political scientists Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Constructivist international relations scholars Academic staff of the University of Toronto Uruguayan expatriates in Israel Uruguayan expatriates in the United States Uruguayan expatriates in Canada Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Social Sciences alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Political science journal editors {{Uruguay-academic-bio-stub