Jack Levy Rutgers University

CAREER AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Jack S. Levy (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1976) is Board of Governors' Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He has held tenured positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota, and visiting or adjunct positions at Tulane, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and NYU. Levy received APSA's Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975-76, and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Foreign Policy Analysis Section of the International Studies Association (2000). He has served as president of the International History and Politics section of APSA, and he is currently serving on the APSA Task Force on Political Violence. He is on the Council for the International Society for Political Psychology, and will be president of the Peace Science Society (International) for 2005-2006. 

Levy's research focuses on the causes of war, foreign policy decision-making, and methodology, and he approaches these subjects from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. He is author of War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975, and coeditor (with David Wetzel and Robert Jervis) of Systems, Stability, and Statecraft: Essays on The International History of Modern Europe by Paul W. Schroeder. Levy's numerous articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, International History Review, International Interactions, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Peace Research, Political Psychology, Security Studies, Synthese, World Politics, and other journals. He is currently working on a coedited book project on causal explanation; coauthored book projects on the evolution of war, the causes of war, and on the balance of power; and article-length studies of qualitative methods, power transitions, preventive war, appeasement, politically-motivated opposition to war, the militarization of commercial rivalries, prospect theory, time horizons and discounting, and intelligence failure. A complete list of publications, along with syllabi and a summary of his research program, is available at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~jacklevy/.

STATEMENT OF VIEWS

My teaching and my research reflect a belief in multiple paths to knowledge, a commitment to theoretical and methodological pluralism in political science, and an interdisciplinary perspective. As a member of the APSA Council I would work to further those goals, and also to promote greater cooperation between APSA and other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.