Department of Political Science

John A. Vasquez

Ph.D. (Political Science) Syracuse University, The Maxwell School, 1974

research interests:

• International relations theory
• War and conflict
• Peace science

for more information:
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Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching

• 2007 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Political Science 394, Fall 2007 (Fall 2007)
• 2008 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Political Science 394, Fall 2008 (Fall 2008)

Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Public Service

• President, Peace Science Society (International), 1999-2000
• President, International Studies Association, 2001-2002

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• In Search of Theory: A New Paradigm of Politics (with Richard Mansbach), Columbia University Press, 1981.
• The Power of Power Politics: A Critique (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1983; London: Frances Pinter, 1983). Translated into Spanish 1991, El Poder de La Politica del Poder (Mexico: Gernika)
• The War Puzzle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
• The Power of Power Politics: From Classical Realism to Neotraditionalism, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Introductory Case Studies for International Relations: Vietnam, the Middle East, and the Environmental Crisis (Chicago, Rand McNally, 1974) (co author with John Handelman and Howard Shapiro) (Author of the case study on the Environmental Crisis)
• The Steps to War: An Empirical Study (with Paul D. Senese) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Books Edited or Co-Edited (Original Editions)

• Evaluating U.S. Foreign Policy (New York: Praeger, 1986b) (Editor)
• The Scientific Study of Peace and War (Lexington, Mass; Lexington Books, 1992, 1999) (co editor with Marie T. Henehan)
• From Rivalry to Cooperation: Russian and American Perspectives on the Post-Cold War Era (New York, HarperCollins, 1994) (co editor with Manus Midlarsky and Peter Gladkov)
• Beyond Confrontation: Learning Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995; paperback, 1996) (Senior editor with James Turner Johnson, Sanford Jaffe, and Linda Stamato)
• Classics of International Relations, 3rd ed., 1996 (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall), 2nd ed. 1990, 1st ed. 1986 (editor).
• What Do We Know about War? (editor)(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
• Realism and the Balancing of Power: A New Debate (senior editor, with Colin Elman as co-editor) (Upper Saddle River: Prentice-Hall, 2003)
• The Construction and Cumulation of Knowledge in International Relations (co-edited with Daniel Geller) (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 2004) reprint of a special issue of International Studies Review Vol. 6, Issue 4 (December 2004).

Articles in Journals

• "The Realist Paradigm and Degenerative versus Progressive Research Programs: An Appraisal of Neotraditional Research on Waltz's Balancing Proposition," American Political Science Review 91 (December, 1997): 899 912.
• "Mapping the Probability of War and Analyzing the Possibility of Peace: The Role of Territorial Issues," Presidential Address to the Peace Science Society Conflict Management and Peace Science 18 (No. 2, 2001): 145-174
• “A Unified Explanation of Territorial Conflict: Testing the Impact of Sampling Bias, 1919-1992,” (with Paul D. Senese) International Studies Quarterly 47 (June 2003): 275-298
• “The Probability of War, 1816-1992,” Presidential Address to the International Studies Association International Studies Quarterly 48 (March 2004): 1-27.
• “Ethics, Foreign Policy, and Liberal Wars: The Role of Restraint in Moral Decision Making,” International Studies Perspectives 6 (2005): 307-315
• “Assessing the Steps to War” (with Paul D. Senese) British Journal of Political Science 35 (October 2005): 607-633.
• "The Changing Probability of War, 1816-1992”(with Marie T. Henehan) in Raimo Vayrynen, ed. The Waning of Major War (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 280-299