James, Patrick

Contact Information
Professor of International Relations
Director of the Center for International Studies
Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Office: Social Sciences Building, Room B-1
Phone: 213-740-1070
E-mail: patrickj@usc.edu

Website: https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/patrick-james/

Patrick James is Dornsife Dean’s Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park). James specializes in comparative and international politics. His interests at the international level include the causes, processes and consequences of conflict, crisis and war. With regard to domestic politics, his interests focus on Canada, most notably with respect to the constitutional dilemma.  James is the author or editor of 22 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Milton R. Merrill Chair from Political Science at Utah State University, the Lady Davis Professorship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, the Eaton Lectureship at Queen’s University in Belfast, the Quincy Wright Scholar Award from the Midwest International Studies Association (ISA), the Beijing Foreign Studies University Eminent Scholar and the Eccles Professor of the British Library.  He is a past president of the Midwest ISA and the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists. James has been Distinguished Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis for the ISA, 2006-07, and Distinguished Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration for ISA, 2009-10. He served as President, 2007-09, of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and Vice-President (2008-09) of the ISA.  He is serving President of the International Council for Canadian Studies for 2011-13. James also served a five-year term as Editor of International Studies Quarterly.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Maryland, Government and Politics, 1984

•  B.A., University of Western Ontario, Honours History, 1978

Professor James comes to the School of International Relations from the University of Missouri-Columbia where he held the Middlebush Chair in Political Science.

Publications:

• Freyberg-Inan, A., Harrison, E., & James, P. (2009). "Rethinking realism in international relations: Between tradition and innovation." Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Jonathan Sullivan, Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury (2011) An Exchange on “Diversionary Dragons, or ‘Talking Tough in Taipei’”. Journal of East Asian Studies: January-April 2011, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 137-152.
• James, P. and Zhang, E. (2005), "Chinese Choices: A Poliheuristic Analysis of Foreign Policy Crises," 1950–1996. Foreign Policy Analysis, 1: 31–54.
• Yitan Li, Patrick James, and A. Cooper Drury (2009) "Diversionary Dragons, or Talking Tough in Taipei: Cross-Strait Relations in the New Millennium." Journal of East Asian Studies: September-December 2009, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 369-398.

Awards and Honors:

• Distinguished Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration, International Studies Association, 2010

• Distinguished Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Association, 2007