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Wohlforth received his Bachelor"s degree in International Relations (summa cum laude) from Beloit College. He went on to receive his Master"s and Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in International Relations as well.
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He is the author of Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War (Cornell, 1993) and editor of Witnesses to the End of the Cold War (Johns Hopkins, 1996) and Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, and Debates (Penn State, 2003). Wohlforth published a seminal article in 1999, challenging the common knowledge at the time that United States supremacy following the end of the Cold War is expected to be short-lived. He is linked to the Neoclassical realism-school and known for his work on American unipolarity, especially in collaboration with Stephen Brooks.
Together they have published several articles and a book, World Out of Balance: International Relations Theory and the Challenge of American Primacy.
Wohlforth was Editor-in-chief of Security Studies (journal) during 2008-2011.
