Emanuel Adler

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Emanuel Adler, FRSC (Hebrew: עמנואל אדלר; born 1947) is a Uruguayan-born political scientist. He is a professor at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair in Israel Studies. He is the editor of the journal International Organization and an honorary professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.

Adler moved to Israel in 1970 and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, earning a BA in History and International Relations and an MA in International Relations. He moved to the United States in 1976 and earned his PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1982.

In international relations, Adler is associated with constructivism. His most cited article, “Seizing the middle ground: Constructivism in world politics,” argues that constructivism sits between rationalist approaches (realism and liberalism) and interpretive approaches (postmodernist, poststructuralist, and critical).

In 2013, Adler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2017, he opened the Latin American Political Science Congress.