ブルース・ラセット: アメリカの国際政治学者 (1935 - 2023)

ウィリアムズ大学およびケンブリッジ大学卒業後、イェール大学大学院で博士号取得。学術雑誌Journal of Conflict Resolution 誌の編集長を1972年から2009年まで務めた。

「民主主義国は互いに戦争することが少ない」という民主的平和論（democratic peace）の代表的論者。日本人の教え子に鴨武彦、猪口邦子、大芝亮などがいる。

単著

• Connunity and Contention: Britain and America in the Twentieth Century, (MIT Press, 1963).
• Trends in World Politics, (Macmillan, 1965).
• International Regions and the International System: A Study in Political Ecology, (Rand McNally, 1967).
• What Price Vigilance?: the Burdens of National Defense, (Yale University Press, 1970).
• No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II, (Harper & Row, 1972).
• Power and Community in World Politics, (W. H. Freeman, 1974).
• The Prisoners of Insecurity: Nuclear Deterrence, the Arms Race, and Arms Control, (W. H. Freeman, 1983).

鴨武彦訳『安全保障のジレンマ――核抑止・軍拡競争・軍備管理をめぐって』（有斐閣, 1984年）

• Controlling the Sword: the Democratic Governance of National Security, (Harvard University Press, 1990).
• Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World, (Princeton University Press, 1993).

鴨武彦訳『パクス・デモクラティア――冷戦後世界への原理』（東京大学出版会, 1996年）

• Purpose and Policy in the Global Community, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
• Hegemony and democracy, Routledge, 2011.

共著

• World Politics in the General Assembly, with Hayward R. Alker, Jr., (Yale University Press, 1965).
• Interest and Ideology: the Foreign Policy Beliefs of American Businessmen, with Elizabeth C. Hanson, (W. H. Freeman, 1975).
• World Politics: the Menu for Choice, with Harvey Starr and David Kinsella, (W.H. Freeman, 1981, 2nd ed., 1985, 3rd ed., 1989, 4th ed., 1992, 5th ed., 1996, 6th ed., 2000, 7th ed., 2004, 8th ed., 2006).

小野直樹・石川卓・高杉忠明訳『世界政治の分析手法』（論創社, 2002年）

• Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, with John R. Oneal, (W. W. Norton, 2001).

編著

• Economic Theories of International Politics, (Markham, 1968).
• Peace, War, and Numbers, (Sage, 1972).
• The Once and Future Security Council, (St. Martin's Press, 1997).
• International Security and Conflict, (Ashgate, 2008).

共編著

• Military Force and American Society, co-edited with Alfred Stepan, (Harper & Row, 1973).
• From National Development to Global Community: Essays in honor of Karl W. Deutsch, co-edited with Richard L. Merritt, (Allen & Unwin, 1981).
• Choices in World Politics: Sovereignty and Interdependence, co-edited with Harvey Starr and Richard J. Stoll, (W.H. Freeman, 1989).
• New Directions for International Relations: Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem, co-edited with Alex Mintz, (Lexington Books, 2005).

• 民主的平和論

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• Profile at Yale University Political Science Department