Professor Jerel Rosati
Ph.D., International Relations, American University (1982)
Email: rosati AT sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-2981

Jerel Rosati is a Professor of political science and international studies and has been at the University of South Carolina since 1982. His area of specialization is the theory and practice of foreign policy, focusing on the United States policymaking process, decision-making theory, and the political psychological study of human cognition. He received his B.A. in political science at U.C.L.A.; his M.A. in political science at Arizona State University; and his Ph.D. in international relations at American University in Washington, D.C. He has been a Research Associate in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Library of Congress's Congressional Research Service, Visiting Professor at Somalia National University, and Visiting Scholar at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China. He has served as President of the International Studies Association's Foreign Policy Analysis Section and President of the Southern region of the International Studies Association.

He is the author and editor of five books and over forty articles and chapters. His books include The Carter Administration's Quest for Global Community: Beliefs and Their Impact on Behavior, The Politics of United States Foreign Policy (which has been translated in Mandarin Chinese), The Power of Human Needs in World Society, Foreign Policy Restructuring: How Governments Respond to Global Change, and Readings in the Politics of United States Foreign Policy. His articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as International Journal, International Studies Review, Journal of Political & Military Sociology, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and World Politics, as well as The Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Policy.

His intellectual and teaching interests range from American politics and history, United States foreign policy, the Vietnam War and the sixties to the dynamics of world politics and global change, the nature of human interaction, and political psychology. He has been awarded the Outstanding Professor of the Year in the Humanities and Social Sciences by the South Carolina (Honors) College, the Outstanding Teacher in International Studies in the Department of Government & International Studies, Excellence in Teaching by the University of South Carolina Alpha Chapter of the Mortar Board Honor Society, and Outstanding Teacher in Political Science by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha (The National Political Science Honor Society). In addition to the usual undergraduate and graduate students, he has taught a course on pedagogy for Ph.D.'s in political science and international studies. He has also been awarded, and participated in, a number of instructional grants at the state and federal level (usually through USIA) as Academic Director, Field Director, and/or Project Director where he has taught Bulgarians, Chinese, Israelis and Palestinians, Somalis, Master's of International Business students, and high school teachers.

He has mentored numerous undergraduate and, in particular, graduate students who have gone on to excel in a variety of professional careers and throughout academia.