40 Facts About Kenneth Waltz

Kenneth Neal Waltz 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.

Kenneth Waltz was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.

Kenneth Waltz's theories have been extensively debated within the field of international relations.

Kenneth Waltz was born on June 8,1924, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he grew up and attended high school.

Kenneth Waltz then enrolled at Oberlin College in Ohio, where he initially majored in mathematics.

Kenneth Waltz served in the Pacific theater of the war, rising in rank from private to 1st lieutenant, and was stationed in Japan during the US occupation.

Kenneth Waltz was a Phi Beta Kappa and named an Amos Miller Scholar.

Kenneth Waltz was an instructor at Oberlin for a while in 1950.

Kenneth Waltz became a lecturer and then assistant professor at Columbia from 1953 to 1957.

Kenneth Waltz became one of the early group of scholars at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies and acted as a research assistant from 1952 to 1954 and a research associate from 1954.

Later saying that he and his wife had been unsettled by the prospect of raising small children in New York City, Kenneth Waltz left Columbia for Swarthmore College, where he was an assistant professor and then a professor from 1957 to 1966.

Kenneth Waltz then moved on to Brandeis University for a stint from 1966 to 1971, the last four years of which he held the Adlai E Stevenson Professor of International Politics chair.

In 1971, Kenneth Waltz joined University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed the Ford Professor of Political Science.

Kenneth Waltz was affiliated with the Institute of War and Peace Studies until 1964.

Kenneth Waltz was a fellow of Columbia University in Political Theory and International Relations from 1959 to 1960 in London.

Kenneth Waltz was a research associate at Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in 1963 to 1964,1968,1969, and 1972.

Kenneth Waltz held a National Science Foundation grant from 1968 to 1971 to develop a theory of international politics.

Kenneth Waltz was a Guggenheim Fellow for 1976 to 1977 and a fellow at the Institute for the Study of World Politics in 1977.

Kenneth Waltz then became a research associate with the Department of War Studies, King's College London.

Kenneth Waltz taught at Peking University for two months in 1982, and he later taught at Fudan University as well.

Kenneth Waltz lectured at a number of institutions in the US, including the Air Force Academy, the National War College, the Army War College, and the Naval War College.

Kenneth Waltz retired from his position at Berkeley and returned to Columbia University in 1997.

Kenneth Waltz served as Secretary of the American Political Science Association in 1966 to 1967 and then as its president in 1987 to 1988.

Kenneth Waltz was President of the New England Section of the International Studies Association in 1966 to 1967.

Kenneth Waltz was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served stints on the boards of editors of several scholarly journals.

Kenneth Waltz has described Hans Morgenthau as a strong influence on his work.

Kenneth Waltz referred to those levels of analysis as "images" and used the writings of one or more classic political philosophers to outline the major points of each image.

Each image was given two chapters: the first used the classical philosopher's writings mainly to describe what that image says about the cause of war, and the second usually had Kenneth Waltz analyze the strengths and weaknesses of that image.

Kenneth Waltz's wife was essential in contributing the research that became the basis for the book.

Kenneth Waltz next assessed the first two images as being less influential in general than the third image but as ultimately necessary in understanding the causes of war.

Kenneth Waltz emphasizes repeatedly in the book and elsewhere that he is not creating a theory of foreign policy, which aims to explain the behavior or actions of a particular state at a specific time or throughout a period.

For Kenneth Waltz, neorealism is divided into two branches: defensive and offensive neorealism.

Kenneth Waltz argues that contemporary geopolitics exists in a state of international affairs comparable to that of perpetual international anarchy.

Kenneth Waltz wrote that this international anarchy is a fundamental fact of political life faced by democracies and dictatorships alike.

Kenneth Waltz suggested that globalization is a fad of the 1990s, and if anything, the role of the state has expanded its functions in response to global transformations.

Kenneth Waltz received the Heinz Eulau Award in 1991 for Best Article in the American Political Science Review during 1990 for "Nuclear Myths and Political Realities".

Kenneth Waltz received the James Madison Award for "distinguished scholarly contributions to political science" from the American Political Science Association in 1999.

In 2008, a conference in Kenneth Waltz's honor was conducted by Aberystwyth University, titled "The King of Thought: Theory, the Subject and Kenneth Waltz".

Kenneth Waltz received honorary doctorates from Copenhagen University, Oberlin College, Nankai University, and Aberystwyth University, as well as from the University of Macedonia.

The Kenneth N Waltz Dissertation Award is a yearly award given by the American Political Science Association to the best defended dissertation on the study of international security and arms control.