Randall Schweller
Professor
Political Science
2106 Derby Hall
614.292.5357
schweller.2@osu.edu
Education
B.A., Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1984)
M.A., Political Science, Columbia University (1990)
M. Phil., Political Science, Columbia University (1991)
Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University (1993)
Teaching/Research
Professor Schweller focuses on theories of world politics, international security, and strategic studies.
Selected Publications
"Entropy and the Trajectory of World Politics: Why Polarity Has Become Less Meaningful" (Cambridge Review of International Affairs, forthcoming)
"Neoclassical Realism and State Mobilization: Expansionist Ideology in the Age of Mass Politics," in Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, ed. by Steve Lobell, Jeffrey Taliaferro, and Norrin Ripsman (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power, (Princeton University Press, 2006)
Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest (Columbia University Press, 1998)
"A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Under-expansion in the Age of Mass Politics," in Neoclassical Realism, the State, and Foreign Policy, ed. bySteve Lobell, Jeffrey Taliaferro, and Norrin Ripsman (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
"Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing" (International Security, 2004)
"The Progressiveness of Neoclassical Realism," in Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field, ed. byColin Elman and Miriam Fendius Elman (MIT Press, 2003)
"Institutionalized Disagreement," correspondence with Robert Jervis and Henry Nau (International Security, 2002)
"The Problem of International Order Revisited: A Review Essay," (International Security, 2001)
"Brother Can You Spare a Paradigm? (Or Was Anybody Ever a Realist?)" (International Security, 2000)
"Power Test: Updating Realism in Response to the End of the Cold War," with William Wohlforth (Security Studies, 2000)
"Tripolarity and the Second World War" (International Studies Quarterly, 1993)
Honors, Awards, and Service
Named one of the top 25 scholars who have produced the most interesting scholarship in the area of international relations in the past five years, Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations (2009)
Editorial Board Member, International Security
Editorial Board Member, Security Studies
Editorial Committee Member, Studies in Asian Security Series
John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (1993-94)
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in the Areas of International Conflict, Peace, and Security (1990-91)
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy (1990)
Ford Foundation Fellowship in Combined Soviet/East European and International Security Studies (1988-89)
Mershon Project
Entropy and the Social Sciences, a book-length project in its early stages on the concept of entropy (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) and its impact on the evolution of the international system and other political phenomena
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