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54
Citations
20891
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 1990 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Robert Jervis was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their academic work primarily spanned the fields of Social Sciences, with a particular focus on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics studied included:

  • Nuclear Issues and Defense
  • International Relations and Foreign Policy
  • Intelligence, Security, War Strategy
  • Economic Sanctions and International Relations
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • International Arbitration and Investment Law

Jervis contributed scholarly articles to a range of publication venues. Notable frequent venues were:

  • Intelligence & National Security
  • Russia in Global Affairs
  • Journal of Cold War Studies
  • World Politics
  • Conflict Management and Peace Science

Some of the recent papers authored by Jervis included:

  • Redefining the Debate Over Reputation and Credibility in International Security, 2020, World Politics
  • Liberalism, the Blob, and American Foreign Policy: Evidence and Methodology, 2020, Security Studies
  • Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 2022, Journal of Cold War Studies

Frequent co-authors in their work were:

  • Joshua Rovner
  • Stacie E. Goddard
  • Keren Yarhi-Milo
  • Matthew Connelly
  • Raymond Hicks

Jervis also authored book publications, including a title published by Cornell University Press eBooks:

  • The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy, 2020

Over the course of their career, they received several awards:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1990
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1978

Best Publications

  • Perception and misperception in international politics

    Robert Jervis

  • Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma

    Robert Jervis

  • Psychology and Deterrence

    Robert Jervis;Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

  • The Oxford handbook of political psychology

    Leonie Huddy;David O. Sears;Jack S. Levy

  • System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life

    Robert Jervis

  • The logic of images in international relations

    Robert Jervis

  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    Robert Jervis;Samuel P. Huntington

  • The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: Domestic Politics and War

    Robert I. Rotberg;Theodore K. Rabb;Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin

  • Realism, Neoliberalism, and Cooperation: Understanding the Debate

    Robert Jervis

  • The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon

    Robert Jervis

  • The illogic of American nuclear strategy

    Robert Jervis

  • Political Implications of Loss Aversion

    Robert Jervis

  • Deterrence Theory Revisited

    Robert Jervis

  • Realism, Game Theory, and Cooperation

    Robert Jervis

  • Understanding the Bush Doctrine

    Robert Jervis

  • The Future of World Politics: Will It Resemble the Past?

    Robert Jervis

  • Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

    Robert Jervis

  • Hypotheses on Misperception

    Robert Jervis

  • Realism in the Study of World Politics

    Robert Jervis

  • From Balance to Concert: A Study of International Security Cooperation

    Robert Jervis

  • Rational Deterrence: Theory and Evidence

    Robert Jervis

  • The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars: The Theory of Hegemonic War

    Robert I. Rotberg;Theodore K. Rabb;Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin

  • Theories of War in an Era of Leading-Power Peace Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 2001

    Robert Jervis

  • Behavior, society, and nuclear war

    P.E. Tetlock;J.L. Husbands;R. Jervis;P.C. Stern

  • Reports, politics, and intelligence failures: The case of Iraq

    Robert Jervis

  • American foreign policy in a new era

    Robert Jervis

  • The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars

    Robert Gilpin;John F. Guilmartin;Myron P. Gutmann;Jeffrey L. Hughes

  • Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change

    Robert Jervis;Judith Goldstein;Robert Keohane

  • Psychology and Deterrence

    Andrew J. Pierre;Robert Jervis;Richard Ned Lebow;Janice Gross Stein

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack Snyder
Jack Snyder Columbia University
Jack S. Levy
Jack S. Levy Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Scott D. Sagan
Scott D. Sagan Stanford University
Kenneth N. Waltz
Kenneth N. Waltz University of California, Berkeley
Joseph S. Nye
Joseph S. Nye Harvard University
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita New York University
Charles S. Maier
Charles S. Maier Harvard University
Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg Harvard University
Cheryl Koopman
Cheryl Koopman Stanford University
Paul C. Stern
Paul C. Stern Social and Environmental Research Institute

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