Education:

Ph.D., University of Southern California

Expertise:

International relations, national and international security, and methodology

Background:

James Lebovic teaches courses on international politics theory, national security policymaking, international conflict, and methodology. His research focuses on military spending, deterrence, arms control, weapons acquisition, the arms trade, foreign aid, and international conflict.

Selected publications

• Flawed Logics: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama (Johns Hopkins, forthcoming);
• The Limits of U.S. Military Capability: Lessons from Vietnam and Iraq (Johns Hopkins, 2010);
• Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States: US National Security Policy After 9/11 (Routledge, 2007);
• "The Politics of Shame: The Condemnation of Country Human Rights Practices in the UNCHR," International Studies Quarterly 50,4 (2006) (with Erik Voeten);
• "An Illusionary or Elusive Relationship? The Arab-Israel Conflict and Repression in the Middle East," Journal of Politics 68,3 (2006) (with William Thompson);
• "Democracies and Transparency: Patterns of Reporting to the UN Register of Conventional Arms, 1992-2001," Journal of Peace Research 43,5 (2006);
• "Donor Positioning: Development Assistance from the US, Japan, France, Germany, and Britain," Political Research Quarterly 58,1 (2005);
• "Uniting for Peace? Democracies and United Nations Peace Operations after the Cold War," Journal of Conflict Resolution 48,6 (2004);
• "The Law of Small Numbers: Deterrence and National Missile Defense," Journal of Conflict Resolution 46,4 (2002);
• Foregone Conclusions: U.S. Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Cold War Transition (Westview, 1996);
• "How Organizations Learn: US Government Estimates of Foreign Military Spending," American Journal of Political Science 39,4 (1995);
• "Riding Waves or Making Waves? The Services and the US Defense Budget, 1981-93." American Political Science Review 88,4 (1994); Deadly Dilemmas: Deterrence in US Nuclear Strategy (Columbia, 1990).

Courses Taught