Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 June 2011
MY personal collection of World Politics begins with the January 1957 issue: volume 9, number 2. It skips to October 1964 and is complete from then on. When I left Princeton to become Northwestern University's fifteenth president, I gave away most of my professional library, envisioning all too accurately the demands of a new life. I never considered parting with any copies of World Politics, however. Perhaps in part this sense of possession came from sentiment arising from my long and happy association with this journal. I think, however, that it stemmed mostly from a recognition that World Politics has been the leading journal of international affairs and comparative studies from its founding until now.
1 World Politics has published the following special issues: vol. 14 (October 1961)Google Scholar, entitled “The International System: Theoretical Essays”; a supplement to vol. 24 (1972)Google Scholar, entitled “Theory and Policy in International Relations”; vol 38 (October 1985)Google Scholar, entitled “Cooperation under Anarchy”; vol. 41 (January 1989)Google Scholar, entitled “The Rational Deterrence Debate: A Symposium”; vol. 44 (October 1991)Google Scholar, entitled “liberalization and Democratization in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.”