Randall Schweller

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Randall Schweller

Political Science

#277

World Rank

#390

Historical Rank

#170

USA Rank

Public Policy

#455

World Rank

#476

Historical Rank

#226

USA Rank

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Political Science

Randall Schweller's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Chicago
Masters Political Science University of Chicago
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Randall L. Schweller is Professor of Political Science at the Ohio State University, where he has taught since 1994. He earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1993 and was as an Olin Fellow at Harvard University in 1993-94. His primary teaching and research interests include international security and international relations theory, and he is perhaps best known for his Balance of Interests theory, a revision to Kenneth Waltz's Balance of Power theory and Stephen Walt's Balance of Threat theory. His work on this subject includes: Randall Schweller, "Tripolarity and the Second World War", International Studies Quarterly 37:1 and Randall Schweller, Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest .

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Randall Schweller's Published Works

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Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back In (1994) (979)
The Purpose of Intervention: Changing Beliefs about the Use of Force (2004) (409)
After Unipolarity: China's Visions of International Order in an Era of U.S. Decline (2011) (349)
Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma? (1996) (339)
Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing (2004) (325)
Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest (1998) (285)
Domestic Structure and Preventive War: Are Democracies More Pacific? (1992) (252)
Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power (2006) (247)
A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the Institutions Debate (1997) (210)
New Realist Research on Alliances: Refining, Not Refuting, Waltz's Balancing Proposition (1997) (154)
Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?) (2000) (123)
Emerging Powers in an Age of Disorder (2011) (119)
Knowing the Unknown Unknowns: Misplaced Certainty and the Onset of War (2011) (80)
Tripolarity and the Second World War (1993) (74)
Power test: Evaluating realism in response to the end of the cold war (2000) (65)
The Problem of International Order Revisited: A Review Essay (2001) (62)
Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy: Neoclassical realism and state mobilization: expansionist ideology in the age of mass politics (2009) (42)
Opposite but Compatible Nationalisms: A Neoclassical Realist Approach to the Future of US–China Relations (2018) (39)
Linking the Levels: The long Wave and Shifts in U (1999) (36)
Status in World Politics: Status Signaling, Multiple Audiences, and China’s Blue-Water Naval Ambition (2014) (32)
Three Cheers for Trump’s Foreign Policy (2018) (29)
Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (2014) (29)
Entropy and the trajectory of world politics: why polarity has become less meaningful (2010) (18)
The Problem of International Order Revisited (2001) (17)
Forum: Fantasy theory (1999) (15)
The Balance of Power in World Politics (2016) (14)
US Democracy Promotion: Realist Reflections (2000) (14)
After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars. G. John Ikenberry (2001) (12)
Rational Theory for a Bygone Era (2011) (11)
Institutionalized Disagreement (2002) (10)
Correspondence: Institutionalized Disagreement (2002) (10)
From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role . By Zakaria Fareed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 199p. $29.95. (1999) (9)
The future is uncertain and the end is always near (2011) (8)
China’s Aspirations and the Clash of Nationalisms in East Asia (2014) (8)
3. Why Trump Now: A Third-Image Explanation (2018) (7)
The logic and illogic of the security dilemma and contemporary realism: a response to Wagner’s critique (2010) (4)
Great Powers and Geopolitical Change. By Jakub J. Grygiel. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 258p. $47.00. (2009) (3)
Organised anarchy: Revisiting G. John Ikenberry’s After Victory (2018) (3)
Misplaced Certainty and The Onset of War (2009) (2)
The Age of Entropy (2014) (2)
Domestic Politics and Nationalism in East Asian Security (2018) (1)
Democracy and the Post-Cold War Era (2000) (1)
International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered (2004) (1)
The Ethical and Political Construction of Action (2006) (1)
Expanding the Institutions Debate1 (1997) (1)
Statement from the New Editor-in-Chief (2015) (1)
Prestige, Delegitimation, and War: What Is Chinaâs Vision for International Order? (2009) (1)
Review: The Purpose of Intervention (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
Grand Strategy Under Nonpolarity (2021) (0)
Reviews of Books (2002) (0)
Reviews of Books (1981) (0)
Faculty Spotlight 2007-08 Randall Schweller (2008) (0)
Chapter 4. Small-Power Case Studies: Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and the War of the Triple Alliance, 1864–1870 (2010) (0)
Chapter 1. Prudence in Managing Changes in the Balance of Power (2010) (0)
Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO by James M. Goldgeier (2000) (0)
Chapter 2. A Theory of Underbalancing: A Neoclassical Realist Explanation (2010) (0)
The Paradox of Peace: Leaders, Decisions, and Conflict Resolution by John D. Orme (2005) (0)
World Politics in the Age of Entropy (2012) (0)
Paul Kennedy and William I. Hitchcock, eds., From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. 336 pp. $30.00. (2002) (0)
Xiaoyu Pu China ’ s Visions of International Order in an Era of U . S . Decline (2011) (0)
GLOBAL INSIGHTS Emerging Powers in an Age of Disorder (2011) (0)
When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics.Benjamin MillerAfter Bipolarity: The Vanishing Threat, Theories of Cooperation, and. Fred Chernoff (1996) (0)
Chapter 5. Why Are States So Timid? State Coherence and Expansion in the Age of Mass Politics (2010) (0)
Alliance Politics by Glenn H. Snyder (1998) (0)
Introduction: Balance of Power and the Puzzle of Underbalancing Behavior (2010) (0)
Faculty Spotlight 2008-09 Randall Schweller (2009) (0)
Chapter 3. Great-Power Case Studies: Interwar France and Britain, and France, 1877–1913 (2010) (0)
Expanding the Zone of Peace? Democratization and International Security. By Alexander V. Kozhemiakin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. ix, 190 pp. Notes. Index. Figures. Tables. $65.00, hard bound. (2000) (0)
The Power and Restraint of Waltzian Neorealism (2022) (0)
From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (review) (2002) (0)

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