Robert Jervis
Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics, Department of Political Science
International Affairs Building, Room 1333
212-854-4610
rlj1@columbia.edu http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/rlj1-fac.htmlRobert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He specializes in international politics, specifically in security policy, decision making, intelligence, and theories of conflict and cooperation. Jervis also serves as a coeditor of the Security Studies Series, published by Cornell University Press, and on the board of nine scholarly journals. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Jervis has previously served as Assistant and Associate Professor of Government at Harvard University. He has also served as Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1990, Jervis received the Grawemeyer Award for his book The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution and in 2006 was given the National Academy of Sciences award for behavioral science contributions to avoiding nuclear war. He is a former president of the American Political Science Association.
Jervis received a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Publications
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (Cornell University Press, 2010).
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American Foreign Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005).
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System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton University Press, 1997)
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The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Cornell University Press, 1990)
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The Logic of Images in International Relations (Columbia University Press, 1988)
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Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976)
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