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Jun 08, 1924 Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Died on 12 May 2013 (aged 88)
American political scientist and international relations theoretician
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About Kenneth Waltz
- Kenneth Neal Waltz (; June 8, 1924 – May 12, 2013) was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations.
- He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.Waltz was one of the original founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory and later became associated with the school of defensive neorealism.
- Waltz's theories have been extensively debated within the field of international relations.
- In 1981, Waltz published a monograph arguing that in some cases the proliferation of nuclear weapons could increase the probability of international peace.Leslie H.
- Gelb has considered Waltz one of the "giants" who helped define the field of international relations as an academic discipline.
- Columbia University colleague Robert Jervis has said of Waltz, "Almost everything he has written challenges the consensus that prevailed at the time" and "Even when you disagree, he moves your thinking ahead."
