Robert Gilpin Jr. is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He taught at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School from 1962 to 1998. His specialties included science and politics, American foreign policy, theories of international relations, international political economy, and the political and economic integration of Western Europe.

Gilpin has published six books: American Scientists and Nuclear Weapons Policy (1962), France in the Age of the Scientific State (1968), US Power and the Multinational Corporation (1975), War and Change in World Politics (1981), The Political Economy of International Relations (1987), The Challenge of Global Capitalism (2000), and Global Political Economy (2001). These books have been translated into a number of languages throughout Europe and Asia.The Political Economy of International Relations won the 1987 Award for the Best New Professional and Scholarly Book in Business, Management, and Economics, as well as the 1988 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award for the best book in political science. Gilpin's present research interests are in the application of realist thinking to contemporary American policies in the Middle East.