JACK S. LEVY is Board of Governors' Professor, president-elect of the International Studies Association (for 2007-08), and past-president (2005-06) of the Peace Science Society (International). He has held tenured positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Minnesota, and now Rutgers, and visiting or adjunct positions at Tulane, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, NYU, and Columbia University, where he is now a Senior Associate at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. 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 is author of /War in the Modern Great Power System, 1495-1975/, two co-edited volumes, and about eighty articles and chapters on the causes of war, foreign policy decision-making, and methodology. His current research projects include coauthored books on the evolution of war, the causes of interstate and intrastate war, and the balance of power; and article-length projects on preventive war, power transition theory and the rise of China, appeasement in the 1930s, time horizons and discounting, the militarization of commercial rivalries, intelligence failure, the Bush Doctrine, the application of prospect theory to international relations, counterfactual analysis, and qualitative methods in the analysis of conflict resolution. Please see his website for his cv, for a summary of his research program, and for syllabi.