William Wohlforth

American international relations scholar at Dartmouth — author of The Elusive Balance and World Out of Balance — the leading academic defender of US unipolarity as a stable international condition.

Creates the unipolarity stability thesis — Wohlforth's argument (that US unipolarity is more durable and less likely to provoke balancing than power transition theorists predict) was the dominant theoretical defense of American primacy in the 1990s and 2000s.