Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics and the Deputy Chair of the Political Science Department at Columbia University; where he has been a member of the faculty since 1980. He has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1974-1980) and Harvard (1968-1974). In 2000-2001, he served as the President of the American Political Science Association. Jervis is co-editor of the Cornell University Press Studies in Security Affairs and a member of numerous editorial review boards for scholarly journals. His publications include Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976), The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1989), System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton University Press, 1997), American Foreign Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005), edited volumes, and numerous articles in scholarly journals. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.