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Overview

Patrick James is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology, political science, and international relations. Their subfields of study also include anthropology, archeology, and education, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to social sciences.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics, including:

  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Classical Antiquity Studies
  • Historical and Literary Studies
  • Canadian Identity and History
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences
  • Canadian Policy and Governance

Patrick James has published in various academic venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
  • International Studies Review
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Social Sciences
  • New Area Studies

Among the recent papers associated with the field and topics of Patrick James are:

  • The Visual International Relations Project (2020), published in International Studies Review
  • A graphic turn for Canadian foreign policy: insights from systemism (2021), published in Canadian Foreign Policy Journal
  • All Roads Lead to Beijing: Systemism, Power Transition Theory and the Belt and Road Initiative (2022), published in Chinese Political Science Review
  • Introduction: Special Issue on the Visual International Relations Project (2023), published in Social Sciences
  • Analytic eclecticism and International Relations: Promises and pitfalls (2020), published in International Journal Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis

Frequent collaborators in their work include Scott Sigmund Gartner, Chin-Hao Huang, Yitan Li, and Sarah Gansen. These coauthors have appeared repeatedly in partnership, indicating a network of scholarly exchange and collaboration.

Patrick James's publications also include book works, primarily with Bristol University Press eBooks and Ohio State University Press. Titles published include multiple editions of Identity in the Shadow of a Giant (2021) through Bristol University Press eBooks, and WHO INTERVENES? (2021) through Ohio State University Press.

Best Publications

  • The Influence of Domestic and International Politics on the President's Use of Force:

    Patrick James;John R. Oneal

  • Internal Constraints and Interstate Ethnic Conflict Toward a Crisis-Based Assessment of Irredentism

    David Carment;Patrick James

  • An identified systemic model of the democracy‐peace nexus

    Patrick James;Eric Solberg;Murray Wolfson

  • International relations and scientific progress : structural realism reconsidered

    Patrick James

  • Crisis, conflict, and instability

    Michael Brecher;Jonathan Wilkenfeld;Patrick James

  • International Crises and Linkage Politics: The Experiences of the United States, 1953-1994:

    Patrick James;Jean Sebastien Rioux

  • Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy: Evaluating a Model of Crisis Activity for the United States

    Patrick James;Athanasios Hristoulas

  • Crisis and war

    Patrick James

  • Religion and international relations theory: Towards a mutual understanding

    Nukhet Ahu Sandal;Patrick James

  • Symposium on Replication in International Studies Research

    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita;Nils Petter Gleditsch;Patrick James;Gary King

  • Media Openness, Democracy and Militarized Interstate Disputes

    Seung-Whan Choi;Patrick James

  • Targets of covert pressure: The hidden victims of the democratic peace

    Patrick James;Glenn E. Mitchell

  • Two-level games and third-party intervention: Evidence from ethnic conflict in the Balkans and South Asia

    David Carment;Patrick James

  • Explaining Third‐Party Intervention in Ethnic Conflict: Theory and Evidence

    David Garment;Patrick James

  • Democracy and Conflict Management: Territorial Claims in the Western Hemisphere Revisited

    Patrick James;Johann Park;Seung-W Han Choi

  • Identifying National Types: A Cluster Analysis of Politics, Economics, and Conflict

    Murray Wolfson;Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi;Patrick James

  • Chinese Choices: A Poliheuristic Analysis of Foreign Policy Crises, 1950–1996

    Patrick James;Enyu Zhang

  • Wars in the midst of peace : the international politics of ethnic conflict

    David Carment;Patrick James;John F. Stack;Gerald R. Alfred

  • No Professional Soldiers, No Militarized Interstate Disputes? A New Question for Neo-Kantianism

    Seung-Whan Choi;Patrick James

  • Conflict and Cohesion: A Review of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research

    Patrick James

  • Politics and Rationality

    William James Booth;Patrick James;Hudson Meadwell

  • The War Puzzle Revisited

    Patrick James

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Brecher
Michael Brecher McGill University
Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Jonathan Wilkenfeld University of Maryland, College Park
Dursun Peksen
Dursun Peksen University of Memphis
Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox Bar-Ilan University
Richard Ned Lebow
Richard Ned Lebow King's College London
Jeremy Moon
Jeremy Moon Copenhagen Business School
Bruce Russett
Bruce Russett Yale University
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita New York University
John R. Oneal
John R. Oneal University of Alabama
Gary King
Gary King Harvard University

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