Robert W. Tucker


Robert Warren Tucker was an American realist writer and teacher who served as professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Life and career

Tucker was born on August 25, 1924. He received his B.S. from the United States Naval Academy in 1945 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1949. He was co-editor of The National Interest from 1985 to 1990, and president of the Lehrman Institute from 1982 to 1987. During his lifetime, he published essays in Foreign Affairs, World Policy Journal, The National Interest, Harpers, and The New Republic. His 1977 book The Inequality of Nations is a highly skeptical analysis of the Third World's efforts to redistribute power and wealth in the international system. He taught at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 to 1990. Tucker died on February 7, 2025, at the age of 100.

Works

Books

  • The law of War and Neutrality at Sea
  • The Just War
  • Nation or Empire? The Debate over American Foreign Policy
  • A New Isolationism: Threat or Promise?
  • The Inequality of Nations
  • The Nuclear Debate: Deterrence and the Lapse of Faith
  • ''Woodrow Wilson and the Great War: Reconsidering America's Neutrality 1914-1917''

Co-authored books

With Hans Kelsen
With Robert E. Osgood
With David C. Hendrickson

Papers

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