Rate My Professor William Wohlforth

William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government in Dartmouth College's Department of Government, where he has been a faculty member since 2000. He received a B.A. in International Relations from Beloit College summa cum laude in 1982, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University in 1984, an M.Phil. in Political Science from Yale in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Political Science with distinction from Yale in 1989. Before joining Dartmouth, Wohlforth served as Assistant Professor at Princeton University from 1989 to 1996 and at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service from 1998 to 2000. At Dartmouth, he progressed from Associate Professor (2000-2005) to Professor (2005-2008) and assumed the Daniel Webster Professorship in 2008. He chaired the Government Department, served on the Committee Advisory to the President, the Committee on Instruction, and multiple college search committees, and was the inaugural Faculty Director of the Initiative for Global Security at the Dickey Center for International Understanding. Wohlforth held fellowships at Yale's Olin Institute for International Security Studies (1996-1998), Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation (1993-1994), and the Hoover Institution (1992).

Wohlforth teaches and conducts research on international relations with an emphasis on international security and foreign policy. His scholarship covers U.S. grand strategy, Russian foreign policy, Cold War history, status in world politics, great power competition, and subversion. He is the author or co-author of books including The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions During the Cold War (Cornell University Press, 1993), World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy (Princeton University Press, 2008, with Stephen G. Brooks), and America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016, with Brooks). He has edited volumes such as The Oxford Handbook of International Security (Oxford University Press, 2018, with Alexandra Gheciu), Status in World Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, with A.V. Torkunov and B.F. Martynov). Notable articles include 'The Myth of Multipolarity: American Power's Staying Power' (Foreign Affairs, 2023, with S.G. Brooks) and 'A Measure Short of War: The Return of Great Power Subversion' (Foreign Affairs, 2021, with J. Kastner). Wohlforth received Dartmouth's Scholarly Innovation Award in 2020 and the Best Article award from the European Consortium for Political Research for 2007-2009. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Security Studies (2008-2011), Associate Editor of World Politics (1989-1996), and holds multiple editorial board positions. His work contributes to policy through National Intelligence Council reports, consultations, and lectures at the National Defense University, Naval War College, Army War College, and international security institutes.