Selected Awards 1988 -- Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award for The Origins of Alliances Academic History January 2000 -- Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies, Institute for Defense and Security Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 1996 - 1999 -- University of Chicago, deputy dean of social sciences 1995 - 1999 -- University of Chicago, professor 1992 - 2001 -- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Board of Directors 1989 - 1995 -- University of Chicago, associate professor 1988 -- The Brookings Institution, guest scholar 1986 - 1987 -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, resident associate 1985 - 1989 -- World Politics, Board of Editors 1984 - 1989 -- Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, assistant professor 1981 - 1984 -- Harvard University, Center for Science and International Affairs, research fellow 1978 - 1982 -- Center for Naval Analyses, staff Writings by Stephen Martin Walt Revolution and War (1996) The Origins of Alliances (1987)