Walt was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where his father, a physicist, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His mother was a teacher. The family moved to the Bay Area when Walt was about eight months old. Visa mer

In his 1987 book The Origins of Alliances, Walt examines the ways in which alliances are made and "proposes a fundamental change in the present … Visa mer

Walt is married to Rebecca E. Stone, who ran for Massachusetts House of Representatives in the 2018 election. They have two children. Visa mer

• Walt's profile at Harvard University
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Walt taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and deputy … Visa mer

American power and culture
On the twentieth anniversary of the war against Iraq, Walt characterized the rules-based world order as "a set of rules that we [the U.S.] had an enormous role in writing, and of course which we feel free to violate whenever it's … Visa mer

• 1999–present – Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
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