Jack S. Levy
Board of Governors’ Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
jacklevy@rci.rutgers.edu http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu/levy/Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors’ Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and an Affiliate at the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses primarily on the causes of war, foreign policy decision-making, and qualitative methodology.
Levy is past president of the International Studies Association and of the Peace Science Society. He has held tenured positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota, and visiting or adjunct positions at Tulane University, Stanford University, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and New York University. Levy received the American Political Science Association’s Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best dissertation in International Relations as well as the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association.
Levy received a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Selected Publications
With William R. Thompson, The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
With William R. Thompson, "Balancing on Land and at Sea: Do States Ally Against the Leading Global Power?" International Security (Summer 2010)
With William R. Thompson, Causes of War (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
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“Preventive War and Democratic Politics.” International Studies Quarterly (March 2008). (Presidential address, International Studies Association)
“Counterfactuals and Case Studies.” Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology, ed. Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Henry Brady, and David Collier (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983).
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