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William Wohlforth

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William Wohlforth's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, William Curti Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the Dartmouth College Department of Government, of which he was chair for three academic years . Wohlforth was Editor-in-chief of Security Studies from 2008 to 2011. He is linked to the Neoclassical realism school and known for his work on American unipolarity.

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William Wohlforth's Published Works

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The Stability of a Unipolar World (1999) (978)
World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (2008) (307)
Realism and the End of the Cold War (1994) (302)
Hard Times for Soft Balancing (2005) (265)
Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War (2009) (258)
Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas (2011) (217)
American Primacy in Perspective (2002) (179)
Don't Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment (2012) (178)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: China's Rise and the Fate of America's Global Position (2016) (155)
The Balance of Power in World History (2007) (153)
From Old Thinking to New Thinking in Qualitative Research (2002) (135)
Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History (2007) (132)
Brother, Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?) (2000) (123)
Status in World Politics (2014) (119)
Unipolarity, State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences (2009) (107)
The elusive balance (1993) (106)
Introduction: Unipolarity, State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences (2009) (98)
Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking (2017) (85)
Status in World Politics: Status and World Order (2014) (80)
The Perception of Power: Russia in the Pre-1914 Balance (1987) (74)
Power test: Evaluating realism in response to the end of the cold war (2000) (65)
International Relations Theory and the Case against Unilateralism (2005) (64)
Ideology and the Cold War (1999) (63)
Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower (2000) (60)
Reality Check: Revising Theories of International Politics in Response to the End of the Cold War (1998) (48)
Nation-Building through War (2015) (47)
Leadership style and Soviet foreign policy : Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev (1995) (41)
America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century (2013) (37)
American Power in the 21st Century (2006) (34)
Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates (2003) (34)
Gilpinian Realism and International Relations (2011) (33)
International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity: Frontmatter (2011) (27)
Witnesses to the end of the Cold War (1996) (24)
A matter of honor (2010) (24)
A Certain Idea of Science: How International Relations Theory Avoids the New Cold War History (1999) (22)
How Not to Evaluate Theories (2012) (22)
Reshaping the World Order (2009) (21)
The Russian-Soviet empire: a test of neorealism (2001) (20)
The Once and Future Superpower: why China won't overtake the United States (2016) (20)
Introduction: The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War (2005) (18)
Status Dilemmas and Inter-State Conflict (2012) (18)
Debating American Engagement: The Future of U.S. Grand Strategy (2013) (17)
Introduction: Balance and Hierarchy in International Systems (2007) (16)
An abiding antagonism: realism, idealism and the mirage of western–Russian partnership after the Cold War (2017) (16)
Is US grand strategy self-defeating? Deep engagement, military spending and sovereign debt (2019) (15)
The Future of the Liberal Order Is Conservative (2019) (15)
Assessing the balance (2011) (14)
The tragedy of US–Russian relations: NATO centrality and the revisionists’ spiral (2020) (13)
Central Asia: Defying Great Game Expectations (2003) (13)
No one loves a realist explanation (2011) (13)
Cold War Endgame (2003) (12)
The End of the Cold War as a Hard Case for Ideas (2005) (12)
Brooks and Wohlforth Reply (2006) (12)
External Intervention, Identity, and Civil War (2018) (11)
Raison de l’Hégémonie (The Hegemon’s Interest): Theory of the Costs and Benefits of Hegemony (2019) (8)
Realism and great power subversion (2020) (8)
The Comedy of Errors? A Reply to Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (2009) (7)
New Evidence on Moscow's Cold War: Ambiguity in Search of Theory (1997) (7)
The transatlantic dimension (2004) (7)
Unipolar Stability: The Rules of Power Analysis (2007) (7)
Realism and security studies (2009) (7)
Hegemonic decline and hegemonic war revisited (2014) (6)
Innovation and the Arms Race: How the United States and the Soviet Union Develop New Military Technologies. Matthew Evangelista (1989) (6)
Hypotheses on Status Competition (2009) (6)
US Leadership and the Limits of International Institutional Change (2012) (5)
Perspectives on the Russian State in Transition (2006) (4)
Clarifying the End of Cold War Debate (2007) (4)
Balancing and Balancing Failure in Biblical Times: Assyria and the Ancient Middle Eastern System, 900–600 BCE (2007) (4)
Statement from the New Editor-in-Chief (2009) (3)
Conclusion: Theoretical Insights from the Study of World History (2007) (3)
New versus old thinking in qualitative research (2007) (3)
The once and future superpower (2016) (3)
A Certain Idea of Science: How International Relations Theory Avoids Reviewing the Cold War (1999) (2)
Superpowers, Interventions and the Third World (2006) (2)
The Right Choice for NATO (2016) (2)
International studies in an unpredictable world: still avoiding the difficult problems? (2020) (1)
Status-Seeking and Nation-Building: The “Piedmont Principle” Revisited (2020) (1)
The Challenge of Evaluating Grand Strategy (2021) (1)
Realism and the End of the Cold War (2011) (1)
Correspondence: Debating China's Rise and the Future of U.S. Power (2016) (1)
Correction to: The tragedy of US–Russian relations: NATO centrality and the revisionists’ spiral (2020) (1)
The literature discussing the link between emerging powers and status concerns has also (2017) (0)
Index to International Security: Volume 38 (Summer 2013–Spring 2014) (2014) (0)
Russia after the Cold War: History and the Nation in Post-Soviet Security Politics. By Gerard Holden. Studies from the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt. Boulder: Westview Press 1994. 205 pp. (1995) (0)
An abiding antagonism: realism, idealism and the mirage of western–Russian partnership after the Cold War (2017) (0)
Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations (2019) (0)
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations. By Keren Yarhi-Milo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014. (2015) (0)
History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (Volume I) (2020) (0)
Contributors (2007) (0)
CHAPTER SIX. Constructivism and the Constraint of Legitimacy (2008) (0)
Index to International Security (2001) (0)
The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics by Marc Trachtenberg. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2012. 322 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $27.95. (2013) (0)
Reviews of Books (1977) (0)
Abstracts (1985) (0)
The Contributors (1991) (0)
Index to International Security: Volume 30 (Summer 2005Spring 2006) (2006) (0)
The Future of Security Studies (2018) (0)
10. How Did the Experts Do (2017) (0)
CHAPTER FIVE. Institutionalism and the Constraint of Reputation (2008) (0)
Alliances Oxford Handbooks Online (2019) (0)
25. US decline or primacy? A debate (2018) (0)
Book Reviews: International Relations (1990) (0)
CHAPTER FOUR. Liberalism, Globalization, and Constraints Derived from Economic Interdependence (2008) (0)
Index to International Security Volume 40 (Summer 2015–Spring 2016) (2016) (0)
CHAPTER SEVEN. A New Agenda (2008) (0)
Introduction (The Balance of Power in World History) (2007) (0)
A Measure Short of War (2021) (0)
From Kuwait to the Abyss: The Soviet Union's Last Foreign Policy (2019) (0)
Gorbachev's Foreign Policy: From "New Thinking" to Decline (2019) (0)
How Did the Experts Do (2011) (0)
Robert Gilpin and International Relations: Reflections (2012) (0)
CHAPTER TWO. Realism, Balance-of-Power Theory, and the Counterbalancing Constraint (2008) (0)
The tragedy of US–Russian relations: NATO centrality and the revisionists’ spiral (2020) (0)
Cambridge Review of International (2011) (0)
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the Twenty-a rst Century (2016) (0)
H-Diplo ISSF round table: Steven Ward. status and the challenge of rising powers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (2019) (0)
CHAPTER THREE. Realism, Balance-of-Threat Theory, and the “Soft Balancing” Constraint (2008) (0)
Beyond American Hegemony: Rising Powers, Status, and the World Order (2011) (0)

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