Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago. He is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine, co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, and co-chair of the editorial board of the journal International Security. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.

Professor Walt is the author of numerous articles and books on international relations, national security policy, and U.S. foreign policy. His books include The Origins of Alliances (Cornell, 1987), and Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (W.W. Norton, 2005). His most recent book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. His daily weblog can be found at http://walt.foreignpolicy.com.

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