ABSTRACT
Klaus E. Knorr, William Stewart Tod Emeritus Professor of International Affairs, died in Princeton on March 25, 1990. Knorr remained at Princeton from 1951 until his retirement in 1979, with significant periods of involvement as a consultant to the Department of State, Department of Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, and other agencies of the US government. This chapter focuses on rich and enduring body of work to engage in an intellectual remembrance. Each of his major bodies of work—from his first on colonialism through his major studies of international security to his later work on international political economy—drew on the methods and research of political science, sociology, psychology, history, and economics. Knorr was a strategist, but unlike so many others, his work was untinged by polemics and could not be pigeonholed intellectually or ideologically. Knorr's work in the area of international political economy touched on most of the basic theoretical concerns of the field.
