LACKLUSTER. Way back in spring 1993, in the very first international relations seminar I ever took, one of the main texts was Stephen Walt‘s Origins of Alliances. Now I am to understand that Walt’s career, which includes two additional books and stints at Chicago, Princeton, and Harvard, has been “lackluster.” If only I had known then what I know now, so much time, money, and pain could have been saved…

–Robert Farley

Robert Farley is an assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky. He contributes to the blogs Lawyers, Guns, and Money and TAPPED.