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Series II: Teaching, 1950-2011
Series III: Correspondence and Personal, 1940-2012

Kenneth Waltz papers, 1940-2012

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Series I: Scholarship, 1950-2012

Series I contains Waltz's research and writing from his graduate work through his later career. Much of the series consists of files of research on specific topics in International Relations and Waltz's collection of articles by other scholars. Some of this material relates directly to his published work, also contained in the series, while some is more generally on topics connected to studies in the field. A number of the topics covered here are also referenced in the files of teaching materials in series II.

Subseries I.1: Research, 1950-2007

Subseries I.1 includes Waltz's reading notes, folders of articles, and newspaper clippings. Two boxes in this subseries comprise his vertical file, in which he kept printouts and clippings of articles alphabetized, usually by author. The rest of the files are labeled by their subject, covering theories and concepts of international relations, organizations, key terms, and areas of the world. A set of alphabetically filed, typed reading notes appear to be from Waltz's graduate work in the early 1950s, while the rest of the material was collected in the course of his scholarly career between the late 1950s and early 2000s.


Box 7 Folder 1 Master of Arts, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 2 Master of Arts Lectures, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 3 Master of Arts Notes, circa 1950


Box 4 Folder 1 Reading Notes A, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 2 Reading Notes B, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 3 Reading Notes C, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 4 Reading Notes D-E, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 5 Reading Notes F, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 6 Reading Notes G, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 7 Reading Notes H, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 8 Reading Notes I-K, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 9 Reading Notes L, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 10 Reading Notes M, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 11 Reading Notes N-O, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 12 Reading Notes P, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 13 Reading Notes Q-R, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 14 Reading Notes S, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 15 Reading Notes T, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 16 Reading Notes U-Z, circa 1950s-1960s

Box 4 Folder 17 To File - Reading Notes, circa 1950s-1960s


Box 1 Folder 1-2 Vertical File A, 1972-1998

Box 1 Folder 3-5 Vertical File B, 1956-1999

Box 1 Folder 6 Vertical File C, 1959-2000

Box 1 Folder 7 Vertical File D, 1975-2003

Box 1 Folder 8 Vertical File E, 1956-1973

Box 1 Folder 9 Vertical File F, 1953-2000

Box 1 Folder 10 Vertical File G, 1957-2002

Box 1 Folder 11-12 Vertical File H, 1961-1993

Box 1 Folder 13 Vertical File I-J, 1975-1994

Box 1 Folder 14 Veretical File K, 1956-2002

Box 1 Folder 15-16 Vertical File L, 1972-2000


Box 2 Folder 1-3 Vertical File M, 1960-2003

Box 2 Folder 4 Vertical File N, 1955-2001

Box 2 Folder 5 Vertical File O-P, 1952-2001

Box 2 Folder 6 Vertical File Q-R, 1962-1994

Box 2 Folder 7-10 Vertical File S, 1902-2000

Box 2 Folder 11 Vertical File T, 1975-1994

Box 2 Folder 12 Vertical File W, 1965-1992

Box 2 Folder 13 Vertical File X-Z, 1982-1994


Box 6 Folder 11 American Foreign Policy, China, 1955-1965


Box 5 Folder 9 America's Military Foreign Policy, 1999


Box 7 Folder 7 Anti-Democratic Thought, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 19 Behavior Science Materials, undated


Box 3 Folder 66 Cavalry, 1992-1999

Box 3 Folder 60 China Clips 1982, 1982-1997


Box 8 Folder 13 China Notes and Clips, 1973-1997


Box 3 Folder 56 China, Iraq, International Criminal Court, 2000


Box 6 Folder 6 Cuba, 1969-2001


Box 8 Folder 29 Electronic Data, 1998-1998


Box 7 Folder 4 German Political Thought, circa 1950


Box 3 Folder 57 Globalization, 1994-1998


Box 5 Folder 6 Globalization, 1996-1999


Box 6 Folder 12 Guerilla Wars, 1989-2000


Box 2 Folder 16 Harris, Errol, 1970


Box 6 Folder 4 Indochina 1945-1960 Southeast Asia, 1967-1985

Box 6 Folder 3 Indochina Clips, 1965-1975


Box 5 Folder 5 Induction, 1975-1999


Box 7 Folder 16 Interdependence - Anthropology/Sociology, circa 1970s

Box 7 Folder 15 Interdependence, circa 1970s


Box 3 Folder 36 Interdependence in Theory and Practice, 1978


Box 4 Folder 35 Iran for Sagan and Waltz Revisions, 2007-2012


Box 8 Folder 3 Japan Report, 1981


Box 7 Folder 8 Jean Jacques Rousseau, circa 1950


Box 6 Folder 1 Korea Materials, 1954-1985


Box 7 Folder 13 Levellers - French Englightenment Lectures, circa 1950


Box 8 Folder 10 Liberalism for Thesis, circa 1950


Box 7 Folder 5 Marxism/Socialism, circa 1950


Box 3 Folder 49 Militarism, 1982-1999


Box 7 Folder 6 Modern Theory Lectures, circa 1950


Box 6 Folder 7 National Missile Defense, 1969-2003


Box 9 Folder 8 National Missile Defense, 1999-2001

Box 9 Folder 9 National Security Policy, 1980-2002


Box 5 Folder 4 Navy United States, 1964-1990

Box 5 Folder 3 North American Treaty Organization, 1997-2007


Box 8 Folder 15 North American Treaty Organization, 1994-1998


Box 3 Folder 50 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1957-1972

Box 3 Folder 51 North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Rapid Deployment Force, 1982-1992


Box 8 Folder 22 Old Stuff: Hoffman, Rosie, Kaplan, Wallerstein, etc., 1968-1993


Box 7 Folder 17 Organizations, undated

Box 7 Folder 18 Pacifism, undated


Box 2 Folder 14 Philosophy of Science, 1952-1993


Box 7 Folder 10 Property and Liberty, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 12 Reformation, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 14 Renaissance and the Reformation 17th-18th Century, circa 1950

Box 7 Folder 11 Renaissance Science 16th-17th Century Lectures, circa 1950


Box 2 Folder 15 Science/Theory, 1973-1976


Box 7 Folder 9 On Socialism, circa 1950


Box 8 Folder 14 Soviet Union and Russia, Book Notes, etc., undated


Box 3 Folder 52 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, 1972-1980


Box 6 Folder 10 Strategic Defense Initiative, 1969-1993


Box 8 Folder 1 Systems, 1981


Box 4 Folder 18 Terror, 1974-1997


Box 8 Folder 18 Theory Orals, circa 1950s


Box 6 Folder 8 United States Strategy and Reagan, 1958-2002

Box 6 Folder 9 United States Strategy Materials, 1980-1985


Box 9 Folder 5 United States, 1995-2001


Box 6 Folder 5 Vietnam/Formosa, 1954-1966


Box 4 Folder 37 Miscellaneous Notes, undated


Box 8 Folder 11 Miscellaneous Notes, circa 2000


Box 5 Folder 1 Papers to File, 1966-2000

Subseries I.2: Writing, 1950-2012

Subseries I.2 contains Waltz's published works, including files of printouts of his articles from the 1960s to the 2000s. There are a few chapter drafts of his books, including Theory of International Politics (1979), The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: a Debate (1995), Structural Realism after the Cold War (2000), and Realism and International Politics (2008), on which he commented and made notes for revision. The subseries also includes correspondence, contracts, and royalty statements from various publishers.

Box 5 Folder 17 The Political Theory of Thomas Hill Green, Masters Thesis, 1950


Box 9 Folder 14 Original PhD Thesis Outlines, circa 1950s


Box 8 Folder 2 Waltz Publications, 1959-2001


Box 3 Folder 47 Kant, Liberalism, and War, 1962

Box 3 Folder 46 The Stability of a Bipolar World, 1964

Box 3 Folder 45 Contention and Management in International Relations, 1965

Box 3 Folder 48 Journals, 1966-2000

Box 3 Folder 42 The Relation of States to Their World, 1967

Box 3 Folder 43 The Politics of Peace, 1967

Box 3 Folder 44 International Structure, National Force, and the Balance of World Power, 1967


Box 9 Folder 2 America Political Science Association Paper, 1967


Box 3 Folder 41 Realities, Assumptions, and Simulations, 1968

Box 3 Folder 40 The Myth of National Independence, 1970

Box 3 Folder 39 Conflict in World Politics, 1971

Box 3 Folder 38 America's European Policy Viewed in Global Perspective, 1974

Box 3 Folder 37 Theory of International Relations, 1975

Box 3 Folder 36 Theory of International Politics, 1976


Box 4 Folder 34 Waltz Publications, 1978-2011


Box 8 Folder 12 Theory of International Politics Original Chapters 1 and 2, circa 1970s

Box 8 Folder 4-5 Theory of International Politics Drafts, circa 1970s

Box 8 Folder 8 Theory of International Politics First Draft, circa 1970s


Box 3 Folder 35 Will the Future Be Like the Past, 1980

Box 3 Folder 32 The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: More May Be Better, 1981

Box 3 Folder 33 Containment, Soviet Behavior, and Grant Strategy, 1981

Box 3 Folder 34 A Strategy for the Rapid Deployment Force, 1981

Box 3 Folder 31 The Central Balance and Security in Northeast Asia, 1982


Box 4 Folder 34 Patterns of Political Explanation, 1983


Box 3 Folder 30 Balance of Power, 1985

Box 3 Folder 28 Realist Thought and Neorealist Theory, 1988

Box 3 Folder 29 The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory, 1988

Box 3 Folder 25 Nuclear Myths and Political Realities, 1990

Box 3 Folder 26 On the Nature of States and their Recourse to Violence, 1990

Box 3 Folder 27 Conditions for Security in a Multipolar World, 1990

Box 3 Folder 22 Saddam may be Hitler..., 1991

Box 3 Folder 23 How New Will the New World Order Be, 1991

Box 3 Folder 24 America as Model for the World, 1991

Box 3 Folder 20 The New World Order, 1993

Box 3 Folder 21 The Emerging Structure of International Politics, 1993

Box 3 Folder 17 The Validation of International-Political Theory, 1994

Box 3 Folder 18 Don't Worry Too Much About North Korean Nuclear Weapons, 1994

Box 3 Folder 19 International Politics, Viewed from the Ground (Pond Response), 1994

Box 3 Folder 14 Peace, Stability, and Nuclear Weapons, 1995

Box 3 Folder 15 A Reply (Security Studies), 1995

Box 3 Folder 16 Kant, Then and Now, 1995

Box 3 Folder 11 Kant, Democracy, and Peace, 1996

Box 3 Folder 12 Thoughts about Virtual Nuclear Arsenals, 1996

Box 3 Folder 13 International Politcs and Foreign Policy, 1996

Box 3 Folder 9 East-West Relations After the Cold War, 1997

Box 3 Folder 10 Evaluating Theories, 1997

Box 3 Folder 8 Intimations of Multipolarity, 1998

Box 3 Folder 5 Structural Realism After the Cold War, 2000

Box 3 Folder 6 North America Treaty Organization Expansion, 2000

Box 3 Folder 7 Globalization and American Power, 2000


Box 8 Folder 24 Structural Realism After the Cold War Draft, 2000


Box 9 Folder 10 Sagan and Waltz Revisions, 2001


Box 3 Folder 3 America Alone in the World, 2003

Box 3 Folder 4 Assaying Theories, 2003

Box 3 Folder 2 Theory of International Politics, 2004


Box 9 Folder 6 Realism and International Politics, Draft and Index, 2008


Box 4 Folder 36 Nuclear, Foreign Affairs, 2012


Box 9 Folder 7 Columbia University Press, 1957-2005


Box 5 Folder 25 Copyright Clearance Center, 1999

Box 5 Folder 22 Little, Brown and Company, 1966-1978

Box 5 Folder 23 McGraw Hill, 1978-2004

Box 5 Folder 26 Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999


Box 3 Folder 1 Royalty Statements, 2001-2007


Box 5 Folder 21 University Press of America, 1979-1990

Box 5 Folder 20 W.W. Norton and Company, 1994-1999


Box 8 Folder 25 Waveland Press, Inc., 2009


Box 5 Folder 24 Withrop, 1969-1971


Box 9 Folder 28 Books, etc., 2000-2007


Box 8 Folder 6 Publishers, 2000-2008