Stephen Walt
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American political scientist
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Stephen Walt's Degrees
- PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors International Relations Stanford University
Why Is Stephen Walt Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Martin Walt is an American political scientist currently serving as the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. A member of the realist school of international relations, Walt has made important contributions to the theory of neorealism and has authored the balance of threat theory. Books that he has authored or coauthored include Origins of Alliances, Revolution and War, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.
Stephen Walt's Published Works
Published Works
- The Origins of Alliances (2019) (2112)
- The Renaissance of Security Studies (1991) (905)
- Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power (1985) (679)
- International Relations: One World, Many Theories (1998) (562)
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2006) (522)
- Revolution and War (1992) (341)
- Leaving theory behind: Why simplistic hypothesis testing is bad for International Relations (2013) (267)
- Why alliances endure or collapse (1997) (265)
- Taming American power : the global response to U.S. primacy (2006) (265)
- Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies (1999) (248)
- Alliances in a Unipolar World (2009) (215)
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (2005) (193)
- An Unnecessary War (2003) (185)
- Taming American Power (2005) (164)
- Testing theories of alliance formation: the case of Southwest Asia (1988) (143)
- Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy (2001) (104)
- The Progressive Power of Realism (1997) (92)
- The Case for Offshore Balancing: A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy (2017) (83)
- The Case for Finite Containment: Analyzing U.S. Grand Strategy (1989) (83)
- Keeping the World Off Balance: Self Restraint and U.S. Foreign Policy (2000) (65)
- Two Cheers for Clinton's Foreign Policy (2000) (61)
- The Case for Offshore Balancing (2016) (60)
- Building up New Bogeymen (1997) (46)
- The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (2018) (45)
- US grand strategy after the Cold War: Can realism explain it? Should realism guide it? (2018) (45)
- Fads, Fevers, and Firestorms (2000) (43)
- Alliances, Threats, and U.S. Grand Strategy: A Reply to Kaufmann and Labs (1992) (38)
- The Search for a Science of Strategy: A Review Essay (1987) (35)
- A Model Disagreement (1999) (31)
- Rational choice and security studies : Stephen Walt and his critics (2000) (28)
- ISIS as Revolutionary State (2015) (26)
- Rigor or Rigor Mortis ? (1999) (25)
- Is It Love or The Lobby? Explaining America's Special Relationship with Israel (2009) (21)
- Can Saddam be Contained? History Says Yes (2003) (20)
- Alliances, Threats, and the Uses of Neorealism@@@The Origins of Alliances (1988) (18)
- Leaving Theory Behind: Why Hypothesis Testing Has Become Bad for IR (2013) (17)
- Perspectives on structural realism (2003) (15)
- Beyond Bin Laden (2002) (13)
- The Blind Man and the Elephant in the Room: Robert Lieberman and the Israel Lobby (2009) (12)
- The Gorbachev Interlude and International Relations Theory (1997) (12)
- Never Say Never: Wishful Thinking on Democracy and War (1999) (11)
- American Primacy: Its Prospects and Pitfalls (2012) (9)
- International Affairs and the Public Sphere (2011) (8)
- Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East , by Rashid Khalidi . Boston, MA: Beacon Press , 2013 . xxxvii + 159 pages. Index to p. 167 . $25.95 hardcover. (2013) (7)
- Causal Inferences and the Use of Force: A Critique of Force without War. (1980) (7)
- Realism and Security (2010) (5)
- Musclebound: The limits of U.S. power (1999) (5)
- The Blind Man and the Elephant in (2016) (4)
- Rethinking revolution and war: A reply to Jack Goldstone and Kurt Dassel (1996) (3)
- International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity: Alliances in a unipolar world (2011) (3)
- How to Construct A New Global Order (2021) (3)
- The Global Response to American Primacy (2004) (3)
- Comment on Michael Desch, “Technique Trumps Relevance” (2015) (3)
- Israel and Palestine--Two states for two peoples: If not now, when? Policy Statement of the Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace (2010) (2)
- Foreword to the 2018 Anniversary Edition (2018) (1)
- 4. The Donald Versus “The Blob” (2018) (1)
- Open letter to Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (2009) (1)
- Iraq in a Box (2003) (1)
- To Hell with Good Intentions (2018) (1)
- The Power of Israel in the United States by James Petras ; The Israel Lobby and U . S . Foreign Policy (2008) (1)
- Mr Obama Must Take a Stand Against Israel Over Iran (2012) (1)
- Symposium: The Future of Israel and Palestine: Expanding the Debate (2013) (1)
- Processes of persuasion: psychology and deterrence. (1986) (1)
- Analysts in War and Peace: MccGwire, McConnell, and Admiral Gorshkov. (1987) (1)
- Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power, Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Richard Price, Christian Reus-Smit, and Nicholas Wheeler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 290 pp., $29.99 paper. (2013) (1)
- 2. A Theory of Revolution and War (2017) (1)
- 23. Drifting apart? The emerging end of the transatlantic partnership (2018) (0)
- 6. The American, Mexican, Turkish, and Chinese Revolutions (2017) (0)
- 5. The Iranian Revolution (2017) (0)
- The Origins of Alliances -Introduction: Exploring Alliance Formation (1987) (0)
- Ideology, Realpolitik, and US Foreign Policy (2013) (0)
- Politicians and professors: a double standard (1987) (0)
- Doomed to Fail: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy (2010) (0)
- Editors' Note (2011) (0)
- Democracy without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting might not have all the answers for fixing the transitional justice movement, the insights offered by this book provide a good place to start (2015) (0)
- Nothing revolutionary (2001) (0)
- The Contributors (1991) (0)
- Can the United States “Manage” the Middle East?: Should It Try? (2018) (0)
- Hugh Johnson and Margaret Rand: Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2022 Mitchell Beazley and Octopus Publishing, London, 2022, 336 pp., ISBN 978-1784727963, $14.99. (2022) (0)
- Editors' Note (1980) (0)
- Political Science at the NSF: The Report of a Committee of the American Political Science Association (2000) (0)
- 10 The renaissance of security studies: Stephen M. Walt (2011) (0)
- International Security 24:2 (1999) (0)
- The Ballpark Podcast Extra Innings: Why American foreign policy since the Cold War has been a failure with Stephen Walt (2020) (0)
- Alliances, Threats, and the Uses of Neoreabm Book Review: (1988) (0)
- International Security: Summer 1999, Cambridge, Mass (1999) (0)
- Revolution and War@@@New Perspectives on Nationalism and War (1997) (0)
- Processes of Persuasion: Psychology and Deterrence . Robert Jervis, Richard Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein, with Patrick M. Morgan and Jack L. Snyder. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1986. xii, 271 pp. $27.50. Perspectives on Security. (1986) (0)
- The Contributions of Lisa L . Martin Rational Choice : A Defense of Pluralism in " (2009) (0)
- Analysts in War and Peace : I MccGwire , McConnell , and 0 (0)
- Panel Meetings (1983) (0)
- Washingtonpost . Newsweek Interactive , LLC Review : Building up (2008) (0)
- 4. The Russian Revolution (2017) (0)
- 3. The French Revolution (2017) (0)
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