# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-waltz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:22.843Z

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name: "Kenneth Waltz"
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description: "Kenneth Neal Waltz was an American political scientist who was a member of the faculty at both the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University and one of the most prominent scholars in the field of international relations. He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean War."
tagline: "American political scientist and international relations theoretician (1924-2013)"
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birthDate: "1924-06-08"
deathDate: "2013-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump