Harvey Starr
PhD, Yale University
350 Gambrell Hall
Email: starr-harvey@sc.edu 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 Hammarskjöld Professor in International Affairs.

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), and as President of the Peace Science Society (International)
(2000-01). 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 13 books and monographs, and over eighty journal articles and
book chapters. He also was editor of the special issue on “Failed States,” in Conflict Management
and Peace Science (no.4, 2008). He has received two grants from the National Science
Foundation. His most recent books are the edited volume, 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). The 9th edition of World Politics: the Menu for Choice, 8th ed. (Thompson
Wadsworth, co-authored with Bruce Russett and David Kinsella) is forthcoming, 2009.

Professor Starr served as Chair of the Department from August 1998 until June 2006.