Stephen Walt, the Glossary
Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is an American political scientist currently serving as the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School.[1]
Table of Contents
91 relations: Ali Abunimah, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Anatol Lieven, Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Antonin Scalia Law School, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Bachelor of Arts, Balance of threat, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Board of directors, Brookings Institution, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Center for Inquiry, China, Christopher Hitchens, Clark University, CNA (nonprofit), College of William & Mary, Columbia University, Daniel Ellsberg, Dean (education), Dennis Ross, Deutsche Welle, Doctor of Philosophy, Eastern Bloc, Editing, Edward Peck (American diplomat), Edward Snowden, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Foreign policy of the United States, Fotini Christia, Haaretz, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, International relations, International relations theory, Interventionism (politics), Iran, Israel lobby in the United States, Israeli settlement, John Mearsheimer, Karen Silkwood, Kenneth Waltz, Libya, London Review of Books, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, ... Expand index (41 more) »
Ali Abunimah
Ali Hasan Abunimah (علي حسن ابو نعمة, Arabic:; born December 29, 1971) is a Palestinian-American journalist who has been described as "the leading American proponent of a one-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict".
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American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
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Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven (born 28 June 1960) is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. Stephen Walt and Anatol Lieven are political realists.
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Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it.
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Antonin Scalia Law School
The Antonin Scalia Law School is the law school of George Mason University, Virginia's largest public research university.
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Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) is a research center that is part of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York.
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Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.
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Balance of threat
The balance of threat theory was proposed by Stephen M. Walt in his article Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power, published in the journal International Security in 1985.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a nonprofit organization concerning science and global security issues resulting from accelerating technological advances that have negative consequences for humanity.
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with operations in Europe, South and East Asia, and the Middle East as well as the United States.
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Center for Inquiry
The Center for Inquiry (CFI) is a U.S. nonprofit organization that works to mitigate belief in pseudoscience and the paranormal and to fight the influence of religion in government.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. Stephen Walt and Christopher Hitchens are American foreign policy writers.
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Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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CNA (nonprofit)
CNA (The Center for Naval Analyses), formerly known as the CNA Corporation, is a federally-funded nonprofit research and analysis organization based in Arlington County, Virginia.
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College of William & Mary
The College of William & Mary in Virginia (abbreviated as W&M), is a public research university in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst.
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Dean (education)
Dean is a title employed in academic administrations such as colleges or universities for a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, over a specific area of concern, or both.
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Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948) is an American diplomat and author. Stephen Walt and Dennis Ross are Harvard Kennedy School faculty.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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Doctor of Philosophy
A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.
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Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the unofficial coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
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Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information.
Edward Peck (American diplomat)
Edward Lionel Peck (born March 6, 1929) is a retired career United States diplomat who served 32 years in the U.S. Foreign Service (from 1956 until 1989).
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Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is a former American NSA intelligence contractor and a whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs.
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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.
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Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.
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Foreign policy of the United States
The officially stated goals of the foreign policy of the United States of America, including all the bureaus and offices in the United States Department of State, as mentioned in the Foreign Policy Agenda of the Department of State, are "to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world for the benefit of the American people and the international community".
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Fotini Christia
Fotini Christia is a Greek political scientist.
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Haaretz
Haaretz (originally Ḥadshot Haaretz –) is an Israeli newspaper.
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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International relations
International relations (IR) are the interactions among sovereign states.
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International relations theory
International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspective.
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Interventionism (politics)
Interventionism, in international politics, is the interference of a state or group of states into the domestic affairs of another state for the purposes of coercing that state to do something or refrain from doing something.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Israel lobby in the United States
The Israel lobby are individuals and groups seeking to influence the United States government to better serve Israel's interests.
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Israeli settlement
Israeli settlements, also called Israeli colonies, are the civilian communities built by Israel throughout the Israeli-occupied territories.
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John Mearsheimer
John Joseph Mearsheimer (born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer are American foreign policy writers, Critics of neoconservatism and political realists.
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Karen Silkwood
Karen Gay Silkwood (February 19, 1946 – November 13, 1974) was an American chemical technician and labor union activist known for reporting concerns about corporate practices related to health and safety in a nuclear facility.
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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. Stephen Walt and Kenneth Waltz are political realists.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
London Review of Books
The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the American southwest.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico
Los Alamos (Los Álamos, meaning The Cottonwoods) is a census-designated place in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States, that is recognized as one of the development and creation places of the atomic bomb—the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II.
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Los Altos Hills, California
Los Altos Hills (Los Altos, Spanish for "The Heights") is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
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Mark Felt
William Mark Felt Sr. (August 17, 1913 – December 18, 2008) was an American law enforcement officer who worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1942 to 1973 and was known for his role in the Watergate scandal.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Marty Peretz
Martin H. Peretz (born December 6, 1938) is an American former magazine publisher and Harvard University assistant professor.
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Massachusetts House of Representatives
The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of Massachusetts.
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Master of Arts
A Master of Arts (Magister Artium or Artium Magister; abbreviated MA or AM) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries.
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Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a public university in Singapore.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
Neorealism (international relations)
Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation.
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Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies
The Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (Institutt for forsvarsstudier, IFS) is a defence research institute based in Oslo, Norway.
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Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Point of Inquiry
Point of Inquiry is the radio show and flagship podcast of the Center for Inquiry (CFI), "a think tank promoting science, reason, and secular values in public policy and at the grass roots".
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Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.
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Realism (international relations)
Realism, a school of thought in international relations theory, is a theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested states vying for power and positioning within an anarchic global system devoid of a centralized authority.
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Robert A. Belfer
Robert Alexander Belfer (born 1935) is an American businessman and philanthropist who is known for his stake in Enron and is the namesake of Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Robert Satloff
Robert B. Satloff is an American historian on Arab and Islamic politics, U.S.-Israel relations, and the Middle East.
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S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) is an autonomous graduate school and policy-oriented think tank of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a region of California surrounding and including the San Francisco Bay.
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Scholar
A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
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Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Strategic studies
Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field centered on the study of peace and conflict strategies, often devoting special attention to the relationship between military history, international politics, geostrategy, international diplomacy, international economics, and military power.
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Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
The Hell of Good Intentions
The Hell of Good Intentions: America's Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy is a book by Stephen M. Walt, which focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. government.
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, published in late August 2007.
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The National Interest
The National Interest (TNI) is an American bimonthly international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest, a public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C., that was established by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in 1994 as the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom.
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The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP or TWI, also known simply as The Washington Institute) is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C., focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East.
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Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict
The United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, also known as the Goldstone Report, was a United Nations fact-finding mission established in April 2009 pursuant to Resolution A/HRC/RES/S-9/1 of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) of 12 January 2009, following the Gaza War as an independent international fact-finding mission "to investigate all violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law by the occupying Power, Israel, against the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, particularly in the occupied Gaza Strip, due to the current aggression".
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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West Bank
The West Bank (aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
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Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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World Politics
World Politics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering political science and international relations.
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2011 Itamar attack
The Itamar attack,.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Walt
Also known as Stephen M Walt, Stephen M. Walt, Stephen Martin Walt, Walt, Stephen.
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