Gilpin, Robert

Gilpin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Vermont in 1952 and a master’s degree from Cornell University in 1954. After three years as an officer in the United States Navy, Gilpin received his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and received his doctorate in 1960 from Princeton. in 1962 and received a standing contract in 1967. He was an employee of the Center for International Studies and the Liechtenstein Institute for Self-Determination.

Gilpin was a member of the Guggenheim Foundation in 1969, a member of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1967-68 and again from 1976-1977, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He is also a member of the American Political Science Association, in which he served as vice president from 1984-1985, and is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations .

Gilpin describes his vision of international relations and the international political economy, starting from a "realistic" point of view, explaining in his book "The Global Political Economy" that he considers himself a "state-oriented realist" in the traditions of famous "classical realists", such as H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau . Gilpin's real scientific interests lie in the application of “realistic” thinking in contemporary American politics in the Middle East. Gilpin openly criticized politics in 2003 during the invasion of coalition forces in Iraq in his essay entitled "The war is too important to leave it to ideological amateurs."

Gilpin lived in Greensboro, Vermont, with his wife Jean M. Gilpin.

• American Scientists and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons (1962)
• "France in the era of a scientific power" (1968)
• US Energy and Multinational Corporations (1975)
• “War and changes in world politics” (1981)
• "The hegemony of war and the Peloponnesian war"
• “The Political Economy of International Relations” (1987)
• The Problem of Global Capitalism (2000)
• “The Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order” (2001)

These books have been translated into several languages. The Political Economy of International Relations won an award in 1987 for the best new professional and scientific book in the field of business, management and economics, as well as a 1988 Woodrow Wilson Foundation award for the best book in political science

• Theory of Hegemonic Stability
• Neorealism
• Neoclassical realism
• Waltz, Kenneth Neal

• Princeton University profile
• Gilpinian Realism and International Relations
• Conversations in International Relations: Interview with Robert Gilpin (link not available)