C. William Walldorf, Wake Forest University
"The Domestic Politics of Restraint: Master Narratives and Contemporary U.S. Retrenchment in Regime Change Abroad"
Where: Friday Center, Chapel Hill
When: Friday, 18 January 2019 from 6:00 - 8:15 PM
Dinner will be served: Advanced Registration is required.
Will Walldorf is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University. His latest book, To Shape Our World For Good: Master Narratives and Forceful Regime Change in United States Foreign Policy, 1900-2011 (Cornell University Press, 2019), explores the ways that broad, public narratives drive major U.S. foreign policy decisions about forceful regime change. He is also the author of Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers (Cornell University Press, 2008), which won the 2010 International Studies Association ISSS Award for the best book on international security. Will has published on the topics of human rights, United States foreign policy, sanctions, and alliance politics in Security Studies, The European Journal of International Relations, and Political Science Quarterly. He is also co-editor of the Oxford Companion to American Politics.
Will is currently working on two projects that stem from his most recent book. The first develops a politically sustainable, long-term grand strategy of international engagement that matches or fits with the current national temperament toward retrenchment across the U.S. public. The second project assesses the ideational sources of the rise and fall of great powers. Will received his BA from Bowdoin College and his MA and PhD in Politics from the University of Virginia. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth College and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He taught at Gordon College, Dartmouth College, the University of Virginia, and Auburn University before coming to Wake Forest.