Every student of international relations has, at some point, been required to read Kenneth Waltz, who died on 13 May aged 88. He was the preeminent international theorist of the post-war period, a ...

Kenneth Waltz died this week ... nuclear proliferation, the Cold War—he did not aspire to be a public intellectual. Instead, Waltz made his mark through a handful of books and articles in ...

Waltz hardly believed that states and individuals didn’t matter, as he regularly engaged in policy recommendation. Rather, he believed that systemic factors, largely beyond the reach of states ...