Randall Schweller
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Alma mater | Ph.D.) |
School | Neoclassical realism |
Institutions | Ohio State University |
Main interests | International relations theory |
Notable ideas | Balances of Interests theory |
Randall L. Schweller is Professor of
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He is also credited with reemphasizing the distinction between status-quo and revisionist states and incorporating that difference into realist theories of state behavior. Randall Schweller, "Bandwagoning for Profit: Bringing the Revisionist State Back in", International Security 19:1 (Summer 1994) and Randall Schweller, "Neorealism's Status-Quo Bias: What Security Dilemma?" Security Studies 5:3 (Spring 1996).
His current work examines why states sometimes fail to balance (focusing on the internal dynamics of states, which directly challenges the unitary actor assumption of Structural Realism). He has a book on this subject (2008) from Princeton University Press that is an extension of his article: "Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing," International Security 29:2 (Fall 2004).
References
- ISBN 9781139536776.
- ISBN 9780549595687.