William Wohlforth

William Curti Wohlforth (born 1959) is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the Dartmouth College Department of Government, of which he was chair for three academic years (2006-2009). Wohlforth was Editor-in-chief of Security Studies from 2008 to 2011.[1] He is linked to the Neoclassical realism school[2][3] and known for his work on American unipolarity.[4]

William Wohlforth

Academic career

Wohlforth received his bachelor's degree in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Beloit College. He went on to receive his Master's and PhD from Yale University in International Relations as well.

He is the author of Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War (Cornell, 1993) and editor of Witnesses to the End of the Cold War (Johns Hopkins, 1996) and Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, and Debates (Penn State, 2003).

Wohlforth's 1999 article "The Stability of a Unipolar World"[5] and the book World Out of Balance: International Relations Theory and the Challenge of American Primacy (co-authored with Stephen G. Brooks) are influential in the field of international relations. In the article and book, Wohlforth challenges the view that US supremacy following the end of the Cold War will be short-lived.[6][7][4]

Works

References
  1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-22. Retrieved 2018-06-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Rathbun, Brian (2008). "A Rose by Any Other Name: Neoclassical Realism as the Logical and Necessary Extension of Structural Realism". Security Studies. 17 (2): 294–321. doi:10.1080/09636410802098917. ISSN 0963-6412. S2CID 30958463.
  3. "Neoclassical Realism". Oxford Bibliographies. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  4. Monteiro, Nuno P. (2012). "Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful". International Security. 36 (3): 9–40. doi:10.1162/ISEC_a_00064. ISSN 0162-2889. S2CID 57558611.
  5. Wohlforth, William C. "The Stability of a Unipolar World," International Security Vol. 21, No. 1 (Summer 1999), pp. 5-41.
  6. "Debating the Multipolar World: A Myth or Reality?". JNU IR Society.
  7. Dall'Agnol, Augusto C. Dall&#39, Augusto César (January 2018). "Balancing in unipolarity: who is afraid of balance of power?". Brazilian Journal of International Relations. Vol. 7, No. 3 (2018), pp. 494-515, for further discussions and critics on Wohlforth "unipolar stability".


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