School of International Relations, Dana and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

University of Southern California, USA

Professor Emeritus

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications：

1984 Ph.D., Government and Politics, University of Maryland, USA

1978 B.A., Honours History, University of Western Ontario, USA

Publications (Selected)

1. Wilkenfeld, J., Beardsley, K., & James, P. (2026). A Century of International Crisis Behavior. University of Michigan Press.
2. Beardsley, K., James, P., & Wilkenfeld, J. (2026). Tracking a Century of International Crisis. In A Century of International Crisis Behavior (p. 3). University of Michigan Press.
3. Johns, R. C., Edwards, S., & Amos-Binks, L., et al. (2026). Adaptive area-wide management for suppressing spruce budworm outbreaks: effectiveness of the early intervention strategy. Journal of Pest Science, 99(2), Article 51.
4. James, P., & Hristoulas, A. (2026). Accounting for Crises in World Politics: Realpolitik. In Reconstructing Realpolitik (p. 57). Press.
5. Korkola, K., Beverly, J. L., & James, P. M. A. (2025). Wildfire containment probability is not affected by eastern spruce budworm defoliation in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 34(9), Article WF25058.
6. Lobell, S. E., James, P., & Silverstone, S. A., et al. (2025). Understanding Near Crises and Escalation in World Politics: A Mixed Methods Approach. Taylor & Francis.
7. Choi, S. W., & James, P. (2025). Civil society and democracy. Social Science Quarterly, 106(4), Article e70052.
8. Hall, T. H., & James, P. (2025). The ties that bind: on affective ties, power, nationalism, and competition over the global distribution of feeling. International Theory, 17(2), 175–207.
9. Kustra, T., & James, P. (2025). The importance of immigrants on American intervention in international crises. Conflict Management and Peace Science, 42(2), 131–147.
10. James, P., & Gokcek, G. (2025). Films “The Pedagogy of Film and International Relations Theory”. In The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory (pp. 513–523). Palgrave Macmillan.
11. James, P., & Scott, J. M. (2025). Conflict, Crisis, and War in World Politics: An Introduction. Edward Elgar Publishing.
12. Choi, S. W., & James, P. (2025). Six alternatives to war, one solution for peace: The pacifying effect of civil society. The Chinese Journal of International Politics, 18(1), 1–34.
13. Korkola, K., Wheatley, M., & Beverly, J., et al. (2024). A comparative analysis of wildfire initial attack containment objectives and modelling strategies in Ontario, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 33(12), Article WF24104.
14. Jourdan, L., & James, P. (2024). Evaluating fuel structure metrics using synthetic terrestrial lidar scans: Ontario's jack pine stands as a case study. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, 2024(1757), Article B53C-1757.
15. James, P., & Viterale, F. D. C. (2024). The dawn of a New Space Age: implications for twenty-first century international security. In International Security Studies and Technology (pp. 221–243). Springer.
16. Gonzalez, E. A., van Wijk, A., & Adhikari, S., et al. (2024). Great power politics and the dynamics of capability: the prevention of near-crisis escalation. In Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention (pp. 305–323). Edward Elgar Publishing.
17. James, P. (2024). “Huge waves crash high 'gainst ragged shores”: Geo-Interpretation for Marine and Coastal Geotourism. International Journal of Geotourism Science and Development, 4(1), 32–40.
18. Zhang, E., & Li, Y., & James, P. (2024). Asia after the Cold War: Back to the Future. In Asian Security in the Age of Globalization (pp. 14–32). Routledge.
19. James, P., & James, J. (2024). “SETTING FIRE TO THE RAIN” 1ST YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND THE “GRETA EFFECT” ON CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM IN THAILAND. Environmental Management, 14(1), 20.
20. James, P. (2023). “DO-IT-YOURSELF” (DIY) Geointerpretation–Making Geology Simple, Fascinating & Fun. International Journal of Geotourism Science and Development, 3(2), 124–131.

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