Jack S. Levy is Board of Governors Professor of Political Science at Rutgers
University, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His research focuses on the causes of interstate war, foreign policy decision-making, and political psychology. Levy is past president of the International Studies Association (ISA) (2007-08) and of the Peace Science Society (2005-06). He received the Helen Dwight Reid (now Merze Tate) Award for the best dissertation in International Relations in 1975-76 from the American Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award from ISA's Foreign Policy Analysis Section (2000), and the Distinguished Scholar Award for lifetime achievement from ISA's International Security Studies Section (2022). Levy is co-author of Causes of War (2010, with W. R. Thompson) and of The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation (2011).
