Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. He previously taught at Harvard and UCLA after receiving his B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. His System Effects: Complexity in Political Life (Princeton University Press, 1997) was a co-winner of the APSA’s Psychology Section Best Book Award. The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell University Press, 1989) won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is also the author of Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 1976), The Logic of Images in International Relations Princeton University Press, 1970; 2d ed. (Columbia University Press, 1989), and The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy (Cornell University Press, 1984.) He has co-edited ten other books and authored over 90 chapters and articles.

He was President of the American Political Science Association in 2000-01 and has received career achievement awards from the International Society of Political Psychology and ISA's Security Studies Section. He serves on numerous editorial boards, is a co-editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Contributions of Behavioral and Social Science to the Prevention of Nuclear War, and currently is chair of the Historical Declassification Advisory Panel for the CIA. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1978-79 and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.