Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Walt, Stephen. "Yes, America Is Europe’s Enemy Now." Foreign Policy, February 21, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "America Is Its Own Worst Enemy." Foreign Policy, February 12, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0." Foreign Policy, February 3, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "This Could Be ‘Peak Trump’." Foreign Policy, January 27, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Joe Biden’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card." Foreign Policy, January 14, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "A User’s Guide to ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’." Foreign Policy, January 8, 2025.
Walt, Stephen. "Trump Can’t Bully the Entire World." Foreign Policy, December 30, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Austria Should Be America’s European Model." Foreign Policy, December 11, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right." Foreign Policy, November 15, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The 10 Foreign-Policy Implications of the 2024 U.S. Election." Foreign Policy, November 8, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "10 Reasons to Be Thankful in 2024." Foreign Policy, November 28, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Kamala Harris Is Not a Realist. I’m Voting for Her Anyway." Foreign Policy, October 16, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Israel’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment in the Middle East." Foreign Policy, October 2, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Happy Birthday to America’s Most Underrated President." Foreign Policy, October 1, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Questions Harris and Trump Still Need to Be Asked." Foreign Policy, September 17, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "In International Politics, Be Careful What You Wish for." Foreign Policy, September 4, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "On Foreign Policy, U.S. Parties Don’t Have the Power." Foreign Policy, August 26, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "The Murky Meaning of Ukraine’s Kursk Offensive." Foreign Policy, August 28, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy." Foreign Policy, August 16, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Two Biggest Global Trends Are at War." Foreign Policy, August 6, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Trump/Vance Unilateralist Delusion." Foreign Policy, July 24, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Biden’s Frailty Doesn’t Endanger America." Foreign Policy, July 11, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "This Time, NATO Is in Trouble for Real." Foreign Policy, July 8, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "What the United States Can Learn From China." Foreign Policy, June 20, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Morality Is the Enemy of Peace." Foreign Policy, June 13, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence." Foreign Policy, June 4, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Why Realists Oppose the War in Gaza." Foreign Policy, May 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Day After Iran Gets the Bomb." Foreign Policy, May 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "What America’s Palestine Protesters Should and Shouldn’t Do." Foreign Policy, May 6, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Appeasement Is Underrated." Foreign Policy, April 29, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "America Fueled the Fire in the Middle East." Foreign Policy, April 15, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Nobody Actually Knows What Russia Does Next." Foreign Policy, April 2, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think." Foreign Policy, March 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The United States Has Less Leverage Over Israel Than You Think." Foreign Policy, March 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "It’s Not Too Late for Restrained U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, March 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "It’s Not Too Late for Restrained U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, March 14, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "NATO Should Not Accept Ukraine—for Ukraine’s Sake." Foreign Policy, March 5, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "NATO Should Not Accept Ukraine—for Ukraine’s Sake." Foreign Policy, March 5, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Why Europe Can’t Get Its Military Act Together." Foreign Policy, February 21, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "The Neurotic Fixations of U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, February 12, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "America Is Suffering From a Resolve Gap." Foreign Policy, January 30, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "Another Trump Presidency Won’t Much Change U.S. Foreign Policy." Foreign Policy, January 22, 2024.
Walt, Stephen. "5 Reasons the Israel-Palestine Conflict Won’t End Anytime Soon." Foreign Policy, January 8, 2024.
Walt, Stephen, and Ravi Agrawal. "Stephen Walt on What to Expect From 2024." Foreign Policy, January 1, 2024.
Walt, Stephen M. "A Practical Guide to Perpetual Peace." Foreign Policy, December 19, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Was Henry Kissinger Really a Realist?" Foreign Policy, December 5, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "5 Things in the World to Be Thankful for in 2023." Foreign Policy, November 23, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Envisioning a U.S. Foreign Policy of Restraint." DAWN: Democracy for the Arab World Now, November 9, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "The World Won’t Be the Same After the Israel-Hamas War." Foreign Policy, November 8, 2023.
Walt, Stephen M. "Universities Shouldn’t Ever Take Sides in a War." Foreign Policy, October 31, 2023.