Revolution and War (Cornell University Press, 1996). Order this book from Barnes & Noble

The Origins of Alliances (Cornell University Press, 1987). Order this book from Barnes & Noble

Rational Choice and Security Studies: Stephen Walt and His Critics (MIT Press, 2000).  Please visit the book's website to read more about it, and to order your own copy. 


Selected Articles:

"The Imbalance of Power," Harvard Magazine (March/April 2004)

"Bush Needs a Mideast Exit Plan," The Financial Times (September 8, 2003)

"An Unnecessary War," Foreign Policy (November/December 2002).

"Can Saddam Be Contained? History Says Yes," BCSIA Occasional Papers.

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"American Primacy: Its Prospects and Pitfalls," Naval War College Review 55 (Spring 2002).

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"Beyond bin Laden: Reshaping U.S. Foreign Policy," International Security 26, no. 3 (Winter 2001/2002).

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"Rush to Failure," Harvard Magazine, (May/June 2000).

"Two Cheers for Clinton's Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, (March/April 2000).

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"A Model Disagreement," International Security 24, no. 2 (Fall 1999).

"Rigor or Rigor Mortis?: Rational Choice and Security Studies," International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999).

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"Containing Rogues and Renegades: Coalition Strategies and Counter-Proliferation," in Victor Utgoff, ed., The Next Nuclear Crisis: A Defining Moment (MIT Press/BSCIA Studies in International Security, 1999).

"The Ties that Fray: Why Europe and America are Approaching a Parting of the Ways," The National Interest No. 54 (Winter 1998-99).

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"One World, Many Theories," Foreign Policy no. 110 (Spring 1998).

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"Revolution and War," in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, ed. J. Goldstone (Congressional Quarterly, 1998).

"The Precarious Partnership: Europe and America in a New Era," in Charles A. Kupchan, ed., Atlantic Security: Three Visions (Brookings/Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1998).

"The Progressive Power of Realism," American Political Science Review  91, no. 4 (December 1997).

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"Why Alliances Endure or Collapse," Survival 39, no. 1 (Spring 1997).

"Rethinking Revolution and War: A Response to Goldstone and Dassel," Security Studies 6, no. 2 (Winter 1997).

"Building Up New Bogeymen," Foreign Policy no. 106 (Spring 1997).

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"Coalitions," in Patrick M. Cronin, ed., Project 2015: Alternatives for the Future (NDU Press, 1996).

"Collective Security and Revolutionary Change: Promoting Peace in the Former Soviet Empire," in George W. Downs, ed., Collective Security after the Cold War (University of Michigan Press, 1993).

"Multilateral Collective Security Arrangements," in R. Shultz et al., eds., Security Studies for the 1990s (Pergamon-Brassey's, 1993).

"Alliances," in J. Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (Oxford University Press, 1993).

"Alliances, Threats, and U.S. Grand Strategy: A Reply to Kaufman and Labs," Security Studies 1, no. 3 (Spring 1992).

"Revolution and War," World Politics 44, no. 3 (April 1992), reprinted in J. Goldstone, ed., Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies (Little Brown, 1993).

"The Renaissance of Security Studies," International Studies Quarterly 35, no. 2 (June 1991).

"Alliance Formation in South Asia: Balancing and Bandwagoning in Cold War Competition," in R. Jervis and J. Snyder, eds., Dominoes and Bandwagons: Strategic Beliefs and Superpower Competition in the Asian Rimland (Columbia University Press, 1991).

"U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for Finite Containment," International Security 14, no. 1 (Summer 1989), also published in D. Kaufman et al., eds., U.S. National Security for the 1990s (Westview, 1992).

"Alliances in Theory and Practice: What Lies Ahead?," Journal of International Affairs, 43, no. 1 (Summer/Fall, 1989), reprinted in Charles Kegley and Eugene Wittkopf, eds., The Global Agenda, 3rd edition.

"Two Cheers for Containment: Probable Allied Responses to U.S. Isolationism," in Ted Galen Carpenter, ed., Collective Security or Strategic Independence?: Alternative Strategies for the Future (Lexington Books, 1989).

"Testing Theories of Alliance Formation: The Case of Southwest Asia," International Organization 42, no. 2 (Spring 1988).

"The Search for a Science of Strategy: A Review Essay on Makers of Modern Strategy," International Security 11, no. 1 (Summer 1987).

"Alliance Formation and the Balance of World Power," International Security 9, no. 4 (Spring 1985), reprinted in Miller and Van Evera, The Perils of Anarchy (MIT Press, 1996), and in R. Art and R. Jervis, eds., International Politics, 4th ed., (Little Brown).

"Arms Control: Why Clever Schemes Don't Work," Issues in Science and Technology 2, no. 2 (Winter 1985-1986).

"Analysts in War and Peace: McGwire, McConnell, and Admiral Gorshkov," Professional Paper no. 458, Center for Naval Analyses (September 1987).

"Causal Inferences and the Use of Force: A Critique of Force without War, "Professional Paper no. 279, Center for Naval Analyses (May 1980).

"Interpreting Soviet Military Statements: A Methodological Analysis," Memorandum, Center forNaval Analyses, (September 1979).