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William C. Wohlforth

William C. Wohlforth

D-Index & Metrics

Political Science

D-Index
39
Citations
12759
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
291

William C. Wohlforth publication distribution in Political Science in 2026

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36 publications 333+

This scientist: 123 publications — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 333 publications or more.

William C. Wohlforth D-index placement in Political Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Political Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William C. Wohlforth sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 62 D-Index or more.

Overview

William C. Wohlforth is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their primary field of study is Social Sciences, with a specific focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their research encompasses a variety of related subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, and History.

The main topics covered in Wohlforth's work include:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • Economic Sanctions and International Relations
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Political Conflict and Governance

Wohlforth has published in various academic journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • International Politics
  • International Relations
  • The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
  • International Trends / Mezhdunarodnye protsessy

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Wohlforth include:

  • Realism and great power subversion, 2020, International Relations

Frequent coauthors in Wohlforth's publications are:

  • Andrei A. Sushentsov
  • Simone Paci
  • Nicholas Sambanis
  • Anne Crowley-Vigneau
  • Andrey Baykov

Their work frequently engages with topics on geopolitical military strategies involving Europe and Russia, alongside issues surrounding economic sanctions and broader international relations.

Best Publications

  • The Stability of a Unipolar World

    William C. Wohlforth

  • World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American Primacy

    Stephen G. Brooks;William Curti Wohlforth

  • The elusive balance

    William Wohlforth

  • The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions During the Cold War

    William Curti Wohlforth

  • American Primacy in Perspective

    Stephen G. Brooks;William C. Wohlforth

  • Hard Times for Soft Balancing

    Stephen G. Brooks;William Curti Wohlforth

  • Realism and the End of the Cold War

    William C. Wohlforth

  • Unipolarity, Status Competition, and Great Power War

    William C. Wohlforth

  • Don't Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment

    Stephen G. Brooks;G. John Ikenberry;William C. Wohlforth

  • The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in the Twenty-first Century: China's Rise and the Fate of America's Global Position

    Stephen G. Brooks;William C. Wohlforth

  • Power, Globalization, and the End of the Cold War: Reevaluating a Landmark Case for Ideas

    Stephen G. Brooks;William C. Wohlforth

  • Status in World Politics

    T. V. Paul;Deborah Welch Larson;William Curti Wohlforth

  • Unipolarity, State Behavior, and Systemic Consequences

    G. John Ikenberry;Michael Mastanduno;William C. Wohlforth

  • The Balance of Power in World History

    Stuart J. Kaufman;Richard Little;William Curti Wohlforth

  • Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History

    William C. Wohlforth;Richard Little;Stuart J. Kaufman;David Kang

  • Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

    William C. Wohlforth;Benjamin de Carvalho;Halvard Leira;Iver B. Neumann

  • Power test: Evaluating realism in response to the end of the cold war

    Randall L. Schweller;William C. Wohlforth

  • Status in World Politics: Status and World Order

    Deborah Welch Larson;T. V. Paul;William C. Wohlforth

  • The Perception of Power: Russia in the Pre-1914 Balance

    William C. Wohlforth

  • International Relations Theory and the Case against Unilateralism

    Stephen G. Brooks;William C. Wohlforth

  • From Old Thinking to New Thinking in Qualitative Research

    Stephen G. Brooks;William Curti Wohlforth

  • International relations theory and the consequences of unipolarity

    G. John Ikenberry;Michael Mastanduno;William Curti Wohlforth

  • The Oxford handbook of international security

    Alexandra Gheciu;William C. Wohlforth

Frequent Co-Authors

Stergios Skaperdas
Stergios Skaperdas University of California, Irvine
Nicholas Sambanis
Nicholas Sambanis Yale University
G. John Ikenberry
G. John Ikenberry Princeton University
Deborah Welch Larson
Deborah Welch Larson University of California, Los Angeles
T. V. Paul
T. V. Paul McGill University
Daniel Deudney
Daniel Deudney Johns Hopkins University
Iver B. Neumann
Iver B. Neumann Fridtjof Nansen Institute
Andrew Moravcsik
Andrew Moravcsik Princeton University
Peter D. Feaver
Peter D. Feaver Duke University
Benjamin J. Cohen
Benjamin J. Cohen University of California, Santa Barbara

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