William C. Wohlforth
Professor of Government
Daniel Webster Professor
A member of the Government Department's faculty since 2000, I teach and conduct research on international relations, with an emphasis on international security and foreign policy. Before coming here, I taught at Princeton and Georgetown. I graduated with a degree in international relations from Beloit College, worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives and did my graduate work at Yale University, earning an MA in international relations and PhD in Political Science. My personal website has all the details on current research and teaching.
Contact
Department(s)
Government
Center(s)
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding
Education
- B.A. Beloit College
- M.A. Yale University
- M.Phil. Yale University
- Ph.D. Yale University
Selected Publications
S. G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth "The Myth of Multipolarity: American Power's Staying Power," Foreign Affairs May/June 2023: 76-91
Kastner, J. and W.C. Wohlforth, "A Measure Short of War: The Return of Great Power Subversion," Foreign Affairs (July/August 2021), 118-131.
Wohlforth, W.C. "Realism and Great Power Subversion," International Relations 34: 4 (December 2020)
Sambanis N., S. Skaperdas & W.C., Wohlforth, "External Intervention, Identity, and Civil War" Comparative Political Studies 2020. Vol. 53(14) 2155 –2182
Speaking Engagements
The 14th Annual Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: "American Power and the Short Peace" with William C. Wohlforth. February 1, 2024
Works In Progress
Kastner, J., Wohlforth, W.C., A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion (Oxford U. Press, forthcoming January 2025)
Norrlöf, C., Wohlforth, W.C., "American Power and the Short Peace," working paper.
Andersen, M. ., & Wohlforth, W.C., "The Balance of Power," forthcoming in Leira and de Carvalho, eds, Routledge Handbook of Historical IR
Sushentsov, A. A,m & William C Wohlforth, "The Tragedy of US-Russian Relations: NATO Centrality and the Revisionists' Spiral," International Politics.