Columbia University New York, New York, 
U.S.A.

Robert Jervis is Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. His most recent book is Why intelligence fails: lessons from the Iranian revolution and the Iraq war (Cornell University Press, 2010). He was President of the American Political Science Association in 2000-01, received the National Academy of Science’s tri-annual award for behavioural sciences contributions to avoiding nuclear war, and is the founding editor of the International Security Studies Forum.