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
