Robert Gilpin

Mr. Robert Gilpin was the former Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus at Princeton University. He briefly served as associate director of the Council for Atomic Age Studies at Columbia University, joining the Princeton faculty in 1962. Gilpin became a full professor in 1970. In 1978, he received Princeton’s inaugural professorship named after former U.S. general and President Dwight D. Eisenhower at a ceremony attended by Eisenhower’s son John. Also in attendance was Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, a Princeton alumnus and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe who served in the Eisenhower administration. Gilpin participated in the founding conference for the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European and International Affairs in 1989. In 2005, for its 10th colloquium, the institute celebrated Gilpin’s body of work, later compiling the presentations and additional essays by eminent political scientists as a Festschrift to honor Gilpin’s scholarship, mentorship and his contributions to the study of international relations. Gilpin served on numerous boards and won several fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and served as vice president of the American Political Science Association. He passed away in June 13, 2018.