Stephen Walt
“It was the American liberals who thought you could spread democracy all over the world and expand NATO in an open-ended fashion and it would never have any negative consequences…now they want to deny responsibility for any of this by blaming everything on Vladimir Putin.”
Stephen Walt
“It was the American liberals who thought you could spread democracy all over the world and expand NATO in an open-ended fashion and it would never have any negative consequences…now they want to deny responsibility for any of this by blaming everything on Vladimir Putin.”
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences. He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of
Foreign Policy,
Security Studies,
International Relations, and
Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
His book
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer) was a
New York Times best seller and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. His most recent book is
The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy.