Randall L. Schweller

Randall L. Schweller is Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy, and a Social and Behavioral Sciences Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellow at Ohio State University. He was a John M. Olin Fellow in National Security at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University from 1993 to 1994. And he was the editor-in-chief of Security Studies from 2014 to 2021. Schweller is the author of Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent (2026); Maxwell’s Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium (2014); Unanswered Threats: Political Constraints on the Balance of Power; (2008) and Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler’s Strategy of World Conquest (1998). He has also published many articles in leading journals, including World Politics, Foreign Affairs, The American Conservative, International Studies Quarterly, International Security, American Political Science Review, Global Governance, American Journal of Political Science, Review of International Studies, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, The National Interest, International Theory, and Security Studies.