William C. Wohlforth

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William C. Wohlforth

William Curti Wohlforth (* 1959 ) is an American political scientist who teaches as Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College . His specialty is international relations , where he is included in the neorealist school of thought .

Wohlforth completed his bachelor's degree at Beloit College in 1982 , followed by master's degrees in 1984 and 1986 at Yale University , where he earned his Ph.D. received his doctorate . He was then Assistant Professor at Princeton University until 1996 , then moved to Georgetown University for two years in the same position . Since 2000 he has been teaching and researching at Dartmouth College, since 2008 as Daniel Webster Professor .

In 1999 Wohlforth opened a political science debate about polarity in the world system with the fact that, contrary to conventional opinion, he did not consider the unipolarity of the United States to be a relatively short-term momentum after the end of the Cold War . He saw the reasons for this in the oversized power potential of the USA, which would discourage other states and coalitions of states from developing counterpower.

Fonts (selection)

  • Edited with Alexandra Gheciu: The Oxford handbook of international security . Oxford University Press, Oxford (UK) 2028, ISBN 978-0-198-77785-4 .
  • With Stephen G. Brooks: America abroad. The United States' global role in the 21st century . Oxford University Press, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-190-46425-7 .
  • With Stephen G. Brooks: World out of balance. International relations and the challenge of American primacy . Princeton University Press, Princeton 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13784-1 .
  • The elusive balance. Power and perceptions during the Cold War . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1993, ISBN 0-801-42822-X .
  • The Stability of a Unipolar World . In: Quarterly Journal. International Security , Volume 24, No. 1 (Summer 1999), pp. 5–41 ( online ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information is based on: William C. Wohlforth, Curriculum Vitae
  2. ↑ Volker Rittberger , Andreas Kruck , Anne Romund: Grundzüge der Weltpolitik. Theory and empiricism of world governance . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 210, ISBN 978-3-531-16352-9 , p. 48.
  3. ^ Carlo Masala , This Is the End of the World as We Know It. Considerations on the current disorder in international politics . In: Andrea Gawrich and Wilhelm Knelangen , Global Security and the Future of Political Orders . Barbara Budrich, Opladen / Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8474-2071-2 , pp. 29–44, here p. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Wohlforth, William C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wohlforth, William Curti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959