Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2014
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs
This event is for Graduate Students and Faculty members only. Registration is required for this event.
Speaker: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Management, Harvard University. 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.
Prof. Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book AWard. He is also the author of Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007).
Main Sponsor
Centre for the Study of the United States
Co-Sponsors
Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History
Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto