This is the second part of the H-Diplo/ISSF Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis, who passed away last December. The first part, which we published in February,[1] included over forty contributions, plus some other material: Bob’s essay in our “Learning the Scholar’s Craft” series, references to other articles in which he…
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Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part I
This is a very special issue of the H-Diplo/International Security Studies Forum (ISSF). Robert Jervis, the founder of ISSF and, in the judgment of the forum’s organizers, the most distinguished international relations scholar of his generation, succumbed to cancer this past December. As a way of honoring his memory, we wanted to give people in…
Obituary for Robert Jervis (30 April 1940-9 December 2021)
The H-Diplo and ISSF editors are deeply saddened by the passing of Bob Jervis, a distinguished and award-winning scholar who was also well known for his limitless kindness and generosity (and sense of humor). Bob was a longstanding contributor to and supporter of H-Diplo. In 2009, in partnership with the H-Diplo editors, he founded the…
H-Diplo Essay 198- Robert Jervis on Learning the Scholar’s Craft
For as long as I can remember—and long before I knew there was a field called Political Science with a specialization in International Politics—I was intrigued by politics. This was due to a combination of what must have been my in-born nature, the strongly political atmosphere of New York in the 1940’s and 1950’s, and,…
Roundtable 10-4 on Perception and Misperception in International Politics and on How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
Robert Jervis is at the same time a giant and a gadfly, a leader and a subversive in the field of international relations. In his career, Jervis has often been very much a theorist in the mainstream political science tradition. In some of his most famous works—including “Cooperation Under the Security Dilemma” and The Meaning…