Stephen Walt

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Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 1983, he received a Ph.D., in political science, from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Walt developed the 'Balance of Threat' Theory, which defined threats in terms of aggregate power, geographic proximity, offensive power, and aggressive intentions.

1 Selected awards
2 Academic career
3 Books by Stephen Walt
- 3.1 Israel Lobby
4 External links

[edit] Selected awards

1988 -- Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award for The Origins of Alliances

[edit] Academic career

January 2000 -- Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, Institute for Defense and Security Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1996 - 1999 -- University of Chicago, deputy dean of social sciences
1995 - 1999 -- University of Chicago, professor
1992 - 2001 -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Board of Directors
1989 - 1995 -- University of Chicago, associate professor
1988 -- The Brookings Institution, guest scholar
1986 - 1987 -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, resident associate
1985 - 1989 -- World Politics, Board of Editors
1984 - 1989 -- Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, assistant professor
1981 - 1984 -- Harvard University, Center for Science and International Affairs, research fellow
1978 - 1982 -- Center for Naval Analyses, staff

[edit] Books by Stephen Walt

Taming American Power (2005)
Revolution and War (1996)
The Origins of Alliances (1987)

[edit] Israel Lobby

Main article: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

In March 2006, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government, published a working paper The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy and an article The Israel Lobby in the London Review of Books on the negative effects of "the unmatched power of the Israel Lobby". They define the Lobby as "the loose coalition of individuals and organisations who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction". The articles generated considerable media coverage throughout the world, replete with claims of anti-Semitism and counter-claims of intimidation.