Stephen
Walt
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he served as Academic Dean from 2002 to 2006. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He is a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and a member of the Board of Directors of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Stephen Walt
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he served as Academic Dean from 2002 to 2006. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He is a columnist at Foreign Policy magazine and a member of the Board of Directors of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Professor Walt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005 and received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Senior Scholar award in 2014. His books include The Origins of Alliances, (1987) which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award; Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005) which was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber International Affairs Book Award and the Arthur Ross Book Prize; and (with John J. Mearsheimer) The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007) a New York Times best-seller translated into more than twenty languages. His most recent book is The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy (2018).
