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Randall Schweller
Office: 2106 Derby Hall
154 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
(o): (614) 292-5357
(f): (614) 292-1146
email: schweller.2@osu.edu

Randall Schweller

Professor of Political Science

  • International Security
  • Strategic Studies

  • Professor Randall Schweller focuses on theories of world politics, international security, and strategic studies. He is the author of Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power (Princeton University Press, 2006) and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest ; as well as articles in journals such as World Politics , International Studies Quarterly , International Security , American Political Science Review , American Journal of Political Science , Review of International Studies , and Security Studies . He is currently a member of the editorial board of International Security . In 1993, he received a John M. Olin Post-Doctoral Fellowship in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

    Selected Publications:

    Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    2006. “Unanswered Threats: A Neoclassical Realist Theory of Underbalancing.” International Security 29(2):159-201.


    Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


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