Robert Jervis (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1968) is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics and Deputy Chair of the Political Science Department at Columbia University, and has been a member of the faculty since 1980. He has also held professorial appointments at the University of California at Los Angeles (1974-1980) and Harvard University (1968-1974). In 2000-2001, he served as the President of the American Political Science Association. Jervis is co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, a series published by Cornell University Press, and the member of numerous editorial review boards for scholarly journals. His publications include Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976), The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1989), System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton University Press, 1997), American Foreign  Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005), and Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Fall of the Shah and Iraqi WMD (Cornell University Press, forthcoming) and several edited volumes and numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Recent Publications:

"The Politics and Psychology of Intelligence Reform," The Forum, vol. 4, issue 1, 2006.

"Correspondence: Thinking Systematically About China," International Security, vol. 31, Fall 2006.

"Understanding Beliefs," Political Psychology, vol. 27, Fall 2006.

"Containment Strategies in Perspective: A Review Essay," Journal of Cold War History, vol. 8, Fall 2006.

"Comment on Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles" a review essay in a symposium on the H-DIPLO net, Sept. 2006

"The Remaking of a Unipolar World," Washington Quarterly, vol. 29, Summer 2006.

"Intelligence, Civil-Intelligence Relations, and Democracy," in Thomas Bruneau and Steven Boraz, eds., Reforming Intelligence: Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness, Texas A&M Press, 2007.

"Comment on Wilson Miscamble, From Roosevelt to Truman: Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War," review essay in a roundtable on the H-DIPLO net, September 2007.

"Comment on Tony Smith, A Pact With the Devil," review essay in a roundtable on the H-DIPLO net, November 2007. 

"Bridges, Barriers, and Gaps: The Relationships Between Research and Policy," Political Psychology, vol. 29, August 2008.

"Intelligence, Counterintelligence, Perception, and Deception," in Jennifer Sims and Burton Gerber, eds., Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks (Georgetown University Press, 2008).

"Identity and the Cold War," in Cambridge History of the Cold War, edited by Melvyn Leffler and Odd Arne Westad.

"Deterrence, Rogue States, and the Bush Administration," in On Complex Deterrence edited by T.V. Paul, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

"Unipolarity: A Structural Perspective," World Politics,  January 2009. 

"The Politics of Troop Withdrawal," in Diplomatic History forthcoming.

"War, Intelligence, and Honesty: A Review Essay," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 123, Winter 2008.

List of recent publications, with links, from the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Current Research:

Professor Jervis is working on a number of projects dealing with the impact of the Cold War on American and Soviet societies, the challenges of deterrence under the new circumstances, and, in connection with having received the Lasswell Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Society for Political Psychology, a paper on political psychology and the nature of beliefs. His long-run project is a book on signaling and perception in politics, bringing together two subjects which, while logically tightly linked, have been studied quite separately in the past.