Harvey Starr
PhD, Yale University
432 Gambrell Hall
Email: starr-harvey@sc.edu
Phone:
803-777-7292
Harvey Starr's research and teaching interests include theories and methods in the study of international relations, war and international conflict, geopolitics and diffusion analyses, and domestic influences on foreign policy (revolution; democracy). His current research interests include the causes and consequences of failed states; geopolitics and the use of Geographic Information Systems; the two-level analysis of security management; the democratic peace; and the theory and methods of necessary conditions. He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in 1989 as the Dag Hammarskjold Professor in International Affairs. At South Carolina he is also currently an Institute Associate of The Walker Institute of International and Area Studies, and Consulting Faculty in the Jewish Studies Program.
From 1991-2000 he served as Editor of International Interactions, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Politics from 2001-03. He has served as President of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association (1992-95), as Vice President of the American Political Science Association (1995-96), as President of the Peace Science Society (International) (2000-01), and as Vice President of the International Studies Association (2011-12). He has been Program Chair for the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. He has served on the NSF Advisory Panel for Political Science. He previously taught at Indiana University, serving as Chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1984-1989. He has also been a Visiting Fellow in Politics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (1971-72, 1978-79), as well as Visiting Lecturer (1985) and Visiting Researcher (1990) at the Centre for DefenceStudies at the University of Aberdeen. In 1996 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He was the 1998 recipient of the University of South Carolina's Russell Award for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences in recognition of outstanding research and scholarship.
He is author or co-author of 14 books and monographs, and over ninety journal articles, book chapters, and notes. He has received two grants from the National Science Foundation. His most recent books areWorld Politics: the Menu for Choice, 9th edition (Wadsworth, appearing in January 2009, co-authored with Bruce Russett and David Kinsella); along with the edited volumes: Dealing with Failed States (Routledge, 2009); Approaches, Levels and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006); and Necessary Condtions: Theory, Methodology, and Applications (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003, co-edited with Gary Goertz).
Professor Starr served as Chair of the Department from August 1998 until June 2006.