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Kenneth Waltz

1924 - 2013

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Kenneth Neal Waltz (; June 8, 1924 – May 12, 2013) was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations. He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War. Waltz was one of the original founders of neorealism, or structural realism, in international relations theory and later became associated with the school of defensive neorealism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Waltz has received more than 678,512 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Kenneth Waltz is the 543rd most popular philosopher (down from 496th in 2019), the 1,757th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,677th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Kenneth Waltz ranks 543 out of 1,267. Before him are Zeno of Sidon, Pietro d'Abano, Paul Grice, Karl Korsch, Chaïm Perelman, and Axel Honneth. After him are Al-Baydawi, Jan Patočka, Myia, Roger Scruton, Jacques Ellul, and Harriet Taylor Mill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Kenneth Waltz ranks 83. Before him are André Franquin, Paisios of Mount Athos, Milka Planinc, Haim Bar-Lev, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, and Sverre Fehn. After him are Kenneth Kaunda, Matthäus Hetzenauer, Ottmar Walter, Paul Desmond, Arthur Danto, and Vasil Bykaŭ. Among people deceased in 2013, Kenneth Waltz ranks 76. Before him are Roger Ebert, Conrad Bain, Wojciech Kilar, Damiano Damiani, Bigas Luna, and Seamus Heaney. After him are Sławomir Mrożek, Wilfried Martens, Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Ottmar Walter, Rossana Podestà, and Stéphane Hessel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Waltz ranks 1,757 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Moog (1934), Emilio Estevez (1962), Billy Crystal (1948), Wolfgang Kapp (1858), Robby Krieger (1946), and Lloyd Bridges (1913). After him are Daniel Nathans (1928), Virginia Henderson (1897), Fats Domino (1928), Bob Newhart (1929), Peter Coyote (1941), and Brion James (1945).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Kenneth Waltz ranks 16. Before him are Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), Daniel Dennett (1942), Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Murray Bookchin (1921), and Saul Kripke (1940). After him are Tom Regan (1938), Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Nancy Fraser (1947), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), and Jonathan Edwards (1703).

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