Patrick James
"What Way Forward for Offensive Realism?"
Monday, Oct. 6, 2008
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201
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Patrick James is Director of the Center for International Studies and Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. He previously held the Middlebush Chair in Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
James's teaching and research interests are in international relations, including conflict, crisis and war; comparative politics, primarily Canadian politics; rational choice, focusing on collective action, expected utility and game theory; and empirical methods, involving research design and statistics.
James's most recent work, Rethinking Realism in International Relations: Between Tradition and Innovation (John Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), with Annette Freyberg-Inan and Ewan Harrison, will be released in winter 2008. He completed publications in 2006 and 2007 analyzing Canadian foreign policy.
His book International Relations and Scientific Progress: Structural Realism Reconsidered (The Ohio State University Press, 2002) and its sequel, Civil-Military Dynamics, Democracy, and International Conflict: A New Quest for International Peace (Palgrave, 2005) with Seung-Whan Choi, focus on creating a version of neorealist theory called elaborated structural realism.
In 2004 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 10 books and more than 100 articles and book chapters.
Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; Milton R. Merrill Chair in Political Science at Utah State University; Lady Davis Professorship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at University of Calgary; Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C.; and Eaton Lectureship at Queen's University in Belfast.
James is 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.
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