James P. Bennett

Associate Professor, Political Science

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1963

Specialties

Political extremism in America, 20th-century American history, modern military history

Personal Website

http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/jbennett/index.html

Publications

"Clash of Culture or Clash of Language?" Journal of Social Affairs 19, forthcoming 2002.

"Generative Possibilities of International Politics Simulations with Few, Heterogeneous Multi-Level Thinking Agents," Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences, Graduate Institute of International Studies, University of Geneva, 8-11 November, 2001.

"Knapsack Allocation of Multiple Resources in Benefit-Cost Analysis by Way of the Analytic Hierarchy Process," James P. Bennett and Thomas L. Saaty, Mathematical and Computational Modeling 17 (1993), 55-72

"Reasoning and Intelligibility in Computational Models of Politics," Artificial Intelligence and International Politics, with Stuart J. Thorson, V. Hudson, ed., Praeger, 1990. 

Courses

Theories of International Relations
International Negotiations  

Research Interests

Conflict management in Southeastern Europe
Comparative expansions of the European Union
International negotiation, especially negotiators’ language
Exploratory data analysis 

Research Projects

(1) “Deterrence and its Afterthoughts,” monograph on the evolution of strategic thought after the end of the Cold War

(2) “Social Democracy in Turkey,” explorations of the prospects for and consequences of institutionalizing a social democratic viewpoint in Turkish politics