Stephen Walt
American political scientist (born 1955) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is an American political scientist currently serving as the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.[1]
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Born | Stephen Martin Walt (1955-07-02) July 2, 1955 (age 68) |
Education | Stanford University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD) |
School | Neorealism |
Institutions | Harvard Kennedy School University of Chicago Princeton University |
Doctoral students | Fotini Christia |
Main interests | International relations theory |
Notable ideas | Balance of threat |
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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.[2] Books that he has authored or coauthored include Origins of Alliances, Revolution and War, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.[3]