Friedrich Kratochwil has taught at the universities of Maryland, Columbia, Denver and Pennsylvania, prior to becoming chair of international relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich and later at the European University Institute, Florence (2003–11). He was editor of the European Journal of International Relations and has served as a member of the editorial boards for several leading European, American and Asian journals. He is the author of Rules, Norms and Decisions (Cambridge, 1989), The Puzzles of Politics (2011), and The Status of Law in World Society (Cambridge, 2014).