William Curti Wohlforth (born 1959) is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in the

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Department of Government, of which he was chair for three academic years (2006-2009). Wohlforth was Editor-in-chief of ''

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'' from 2008 to 2011. He is linked to the Neoclassical realism school and known for his work on American unipolarity.

Academic career

Wohlforth received his bachelor's degree in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Beloit College. He went on to receive his Master's and PhD from Yale University in International Relations as well. He is the author of ''Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War'' (Cornell, 1993) and editor of ''Witnesses to the End of the Cold War'' (Johns Hopkins, 1996) and ''Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, and Debates'' (Penn State, 2003). Wohlforth's 1999 article "The Stability of a Unipolar World" and the book ''World Out of Balance: International Relations Theory and the Challenge of American Primacy'' (co-authored with Stephen G. Brooks) are influential in the field of international relations. In the article and book, Wohlforth challenges the view that US supremacy following the end of the Cold War will be short-lived.Dall'Agnol, Augusto C. Vol. 7, No. 3 (2018), pp. 494-515, for further discussions and critics on Wohlforth "unipolar stability".

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Wohlforth's biography on the Dartmouth web sitePapers by William WohlforthWorks at International Security Journal
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