Stephen Martin Walt was born on July 2,1955 and is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International relations at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University and a political scientist.
18 Facts About Stephen Walt
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Stephen Walt was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where his father, a physicist, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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The family moved to the Bay Area when Stephen Walt was about eight months old.
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Stephen Walt first majored in chemistry with an eye to becoming a biochemist but then shifted to history and finally to international relations.
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Stephen Walt taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences.
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Stephen Walt was elected a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
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Stephen Walt spoke at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in 2010.
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In 2012, Stephen Walt took part in a panel at the one-state solution conference at the Kennedy School, along with Ali Abunimah and Eve Spangler.
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Stephen Walt argued that NATO must be sustained because of four major areas in which close co-operation is beneficial to European and American interest.
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Stephen Walt explained his view that the Islamic State was unlikely to grow into a longlasting world power on Point of Inquiry, the podcast of the Center for Inquiry in July 2015.
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Stephen Walt has been a critic, along with his co-author John Mearsheimer of the offensive neorealism school of international relations, of the Israel lobby in the United States and the influence he says that it has on its foreign policy.
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Stephen Walt wrote that Barack Obama erred by breaking with the principles in his Cairo speech by allowing continued Israeli settlement and by participating in a "well-coordinated assault" against the Goldstone Report.
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Stephen Walt suggested in 2010 that State Department diplomat Dennis Ross's alleged partiality toward Israel might make him give Obama advice that was against US interests.
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Stephen Walt has frequently criticized America's policy with respect to Iran.
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Bernstein said it was ironic that "Stephen Walt, after fulminating about the American domestic 'Israel Lobby'" had thus become "a part of the 'Libya lobby'".
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Stephen Walt posits that offshore balancing is the most desirable strategy to deal with China.
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In 2011, Stephen Walt argued that China will seek to gain regional hegemony and a broad sphere of influence in Asia, which was comparable in size to the US position in the Western Hemisphere.
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In July 2013, Stephen Walt argued that Obama should give Edward Snowden an immediate pardon.