James W. Davis

James W. Davis (born November 1, 1963 in Marquette , Michigan ) is an American political scientist .

Life

Davis graduated in International Relations and Political Science at Michigan State University and Columbia University , where he later under the supervision of Robert Jervis received his doctorate. A postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University followed . In June 2002 Davis obtained his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. Since April 2005 Davis has been a full professor of political science with a special focus on international relations at the University of St. Gallen . Professor Davis is Dean of the School of Economics and Political Science (SEPS), Director of the Institute for Political Science (IPW-HSG) and heads the Center for Security Economics and Technology (CSET), a cooperation project with the DDPS . His expertise lies in the field of international politics and includes in particular the areas of US foreign and security policy , methods of political science, political psychology and transatlantic relations.

Publications

• "Clausewitz on Small War" (with Christopher Daase ), Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.
• “Psychology, Strategy and Conflict: Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations” (ed.), Routledge, Oxford 2012.
• "The (Good) Person and the (Bad) Situation: Recovering Innocence at the Expense of Responsibility?" in: James W. Davis (ed.), Strategy, Psychology and Conflict: Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations, 2012.
• “A Critical View of Global Governance”, in: Swiss Political Science Review 18: 2, 2012, pp. 149–286.
• “The Timeliness of Pre- and Early Modern International Law: A View from Political Science”, in: Journal for Historical Research 45, 2011.
• “Can Disarmament Work? Debating the Benefits of Nuclear Weapons ”(with Josef Joffe ), in: Foreign Affairs 90: 4, 2011.
• “Less than Zero” (with Josef Joffe ) in Foreign Affairs 90: 1, 2011.
• “From Logic to Logics: The Relationship of Particular Cases to General Patterns in Social Life,” in: Nicholas Onuf et al. (Ed.): On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2010.
• “Transatlantic Relations”, in: Bertrand Badie et al. (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Sage, London 2010.
• “Washington's war on terror - lessons from the mistakes of the Bush administration”, in Reinhard C. Meier-Walser (Ed.): The foreign policy of the USA. President Obama's new course and the future of transatlantic relations, Munich: Hanns Seidel Foundation, 2009.
• “Security Economics: Also A Public Management Challenge,” Security and Peace, 25: 4, 2007.
• “Whose will? What order? A reply to Zürn et al. ”, Journal for International Relations 14: 1, 2007.
• "Abusing The Holocaust Analogy?" Security Studies 15: 4, 2006.
• “Terms of Inquiry: On the Theory and Practice of Political Science”, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2005.
• “When Norms Clash: International Norms, Domestic Practices and Japan's Internalization of the GATT / WTO” (with Andrew P. Cortell), Review of International Studies 31, 2005.
• “Confounding Conceptual Clarity”, in: Qualitative Methods: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Qualitative Methods, Vol. 3: 2, 2005.
• “European Security and Transatlantic Relations”, in: Franz Kernic & Gunther Hauser (eds.), Handbook on European Security Policy, Peter Lang Verlag, Vienna 2005.
• “German Unification” (with William Wohlforth ), in: Richard K. Herrmann and Richard Ned Lebow (eds.): Ending the Cold War, Palgrave, New York 2003.
• “On the future of NATO: Reflections of an American in Germany”, in: Arguments and materials on current events 34, Hanns Seidel Foundation , Munich 2002.
• “German Fictions: An Exchange”, in: The National Interest 62, 2000, pp. 97-102.
• “Threats and Promises: The Pursuit of International Influence”, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2000.
• “Understanding the Domestic Impact of International Norms: A Research Agenda,” in International Studies Review 2, 1, 2000, pp. 65-87 (with Andrew P. Cortell).
• “Taking Offense at Offense-Defense Theory,” International Security 23, 3 (Winter 1998/99), pp. 179-206. Reprinted in Michael E. Brown et al. (eds.), Offense, Defense, and War, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
• “How Do International Institutions Matter? The Domestic Impact of International Rules and Norms ”, in International Studies Quarterly 40, 1996, pp. 1-478 (with Andrew P. Cortell). Reprinted in Timothy J. Sinclair (ed.), Global Governance: Critical Concepts in Political Science, Routledge, New York 2000; also reprinted in Beth Simmons (ed.), International Law, Sage, London 2008.
• “The Role of Promises in Deterrence”, Ann Arbor, UMI, Michigan 1995.
• “Projecting Power: An Indirect Approach”, in: Charles Hermann (Ed.), The American Defense Annual: 1993-1994, Lexington Books, New York 1994, pp. 129-146. (with Jack L. Snyder ).

Committee work

• 2014–2015 Member of the Commission of the German Bundestag to review and safeguard parliamentary rights when mandating foreign missions by the Bundeswehr ("Rühe Commission")
• 2011–2012 member of the panel of experts, future dialogue of the Federal Chancellor, Federal Chancellery
• since 2008 member of the Steering Committee, Standing Group on International Relations, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• Since 2007 Chairman, Program Commission, Doctorate in International Affairs and Political Economy, University of St.Gallen
• since 2006 member, editorial board, Swiss Political Science Journal
• since 2005 member, Long Range Planning Committee, International Studies Association

Web links

• researchgate.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 329 (there is mistakenly Marguette ).