Kenneth Waltz was a:

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Realism dominated the academic study of international affairs after the Second World War.

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Neorealism is also known as structural realism.
According to structural realism, the distribution of capabilities and the ordering principle of the international structure are what determine how it is.
Neorealism is a reformulation of the classical realist school of E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, and Reinhold Niebuhr.
Waltz was one of the pioneers of neorealism, or structural realism
Kenneth Waltz initially described it in his book Theory of International Politics in 1979.

Thus, Kenneth Waltz was a Neo-realist.

Additional Information

It is an approach to understanding international relations that places a strong emphasis on the importance of power politics, sees competition and conflict as enduring characteristics, and finds little room for cooperation.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, Neorealism with neoliberalism predominated in international relations approaches.