Public Lecture: Professor Patrick James

You are cordially invited to the public lecture organized by Özyeğin University Department of International Relations entitled “Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises: Presidential Leadership and Outcomes” by Professor Patrick James.

PATRICK JAMES is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park). James specializes in comparative and international politics. His interests at the international level include the causes, processes and consequences of conflict, crisis and war. Professor James is currently the President of International Peace Science Society and the President-Elect of International Studies Association. He is the author of 20 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Milton R. Merrill Chair from Political Science at Utah State University, the Lady Davis Professorship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, the Eaton Lectureship at Queen’s University in Belfast, the Quincy Wright Scholar Award from the Midwest International Studies Association (ISA), the Beijing Foreign Studies University Eminent Scholar and the Eccles Professor of the British Library. He is a past president of the Midwest ISA and the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists. James has been Distinguished Scholar in Foreign Policy Analysis for the ISA, 2006-07, and Distinguished Scholar in Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration for ISA, 2009-10. He served as President, 2007-09, of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and Vice-President (2008-09) of the ISA. He will be President of the International Council for Canadian Studies in 2011-13. James also served a five-year term as Editor of International Studies Quarterly.

The event is scheduled to take place on March 17, 2017, Friday at 13.00 in room FEAS/AB2 G16, Özyeğin University Çekmeköy Campus.

Please note that there are shuttles to Özyeğin Çekmeköy Campus from Altunizade at 12:00; for additional information about extra shuttle times, possibly from Kadıkoy or Taksim, please contact and RSVP to Dr. Ali Fisunoglu at ali.fisunoglu@ozyegin.edu.tr

For more information about accessing to the Çekmeköy Campus, please visit: https://www.ozyegin.edu.tr/tr/iletisim?lang=en-US