Robert Gilpin was an American political scientist.
12 Facts About Robert Gilpin
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Robert Gilpin was Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University where he held the Eisenhower professorship.
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Robert Gilpin was a proponent of what would become known as hegemonic stability theory, the notion that the international system is most likely to be stable in the presence of a hegemon.
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Robert Gilpin joined the Princeton faculty in 1962 and became full professor in 1970.
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Robert Gilpin was a faculty associate of the Center of International Studies, and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.
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Robert Gilpin was a Guggenheim fellow in 1969, a Rockefeller fellow from 1967 to 1968 and again from 1976 to 1977, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Robert Gilpin was a member of the American Political Science Association for which he served as vice president from 1984 to 1985, and he was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Early in his career, Robert Gilpin focused on conflict and national security, in particular nuclear weapons policy.
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Robert Gilpin described his view of international relations and international political economy from a "realist" standpoint.
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Robert Gilpin has described Morgenthau, Carr and Hedley Bull as influences on his thinking, as well as Susan Strange, Raymond Vernon and Richard Cooper.
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Robert Gilpin argued that states were still the key actors in the realm of economic relations and that security interests remained a key determinant of state behavior in economic affairs.
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Robert Gilpin has described War and Change In World Politics as the work of his that he is most pleased with.