Professor
School of International Relations
213-821-4114
patrickj@usc.edu
Professor James comes to the School of International Relations from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he held the Middlebush Chair in Political Science.
His teaching and research interests are in the fields of International Relations (conflict, crisis and war); Comparative Politics (Canadian politics); Rational Choice (collective action, expected utility and game theory); and Empirical Methods (research design and statistics). His most recent book, International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered (Ohio State University Press, 2002), and its sequel, currently in-progress, focus on creating a version of neorealist theory labeled Elaborated Structural Realism.
In 2004 Professor James received the Gold Chalk Award for graduate mentorship in the Social Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Professional Council. He is the author of ten books and over one hundred articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Milton R. Merrill Chair from Political Science at Utah State University, the Lady Davis Professorship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, and the Eaton Lectureship at Queen's University in Belfast. He is a past president of the Midwest International Studies Association and the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Editor of International Studies Quarterly.
Education:
Ph.D. (Political Science), University of Maryland, 1984
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration, International Studies Association, 2010
Distinguished Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Association, 2007