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Research Interests

Dr. Jackson's research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory (particularly the intersection of realism and constructivism), the philosophy and sociology of science, ethical action in light of climate change, the role of rhetoric in public life, the concept of 'Western Civilization,' popular culture and politics, and the political and social theory of Max Weber. "Eclectic" is an understatement.

Selected Publications

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• 鈥溾�楧oes It Matter If It鈥檚 A Discipline?鈥� Bawled the Child,鈥� in Andreas Gofas, Inanna Hamati-Ataya, and Nicholas Onuf, eds., SAGE Handbook of the History, Philosophy and Sociology of International Relations (Sage, 2018), pp. 326-339.
• 鈥淭he Production of Facts: Ideal-typification and the Preservation of Politics,鈥� in Ned Lebow, ed., Max Weber and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 79-96.
• 鈥淐ausal Claims and Causal Explanation in International Studies,鈥� Journal of International Relations and Development 20:4 (2017), pp. 689-716.
• 鈥淢orgenthau鈥檚 Pilgrimage,鈥� in Molly Cochran and Cornelia Navari, eds., Progressivism and US Foreign Policy Between the World Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
• 鈥淧racticing (Social-)Scientific Pluralism,鈥� in Laura Sjoberg and Samuel Barkin, eds., Interpretive Quantification: Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR (University of Michigan Press, 2017), pp. 227-242.
• The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and its Implications for the Study of World Politics (Routledge, 2011; second edition 2016)
• 鈥淢ust International Studies Be A Science?鈥� Millennium 43:3 (2015), pp. 942-965.
• 鈥淔ear of Relativism,鈥� International Studies Perspectives 16:1 (2015), pp. 13-22.
• 鈥淚nternational Theory in a Post-Paradigmatic Era: From Substantive Wagers to Scientific Ontologies鈥� (co-authored with Daniel H. Nexon), European Journal of International Relations 19:3 (2013), pp. 543-565.
• "How to Think about Civilizations," in Civilizations and States in World Politics, ed. Peter Katzenstein, 2009.听 听听听
• "Outside Context Problems: Liberalism and the Other in the Work of Iain M. Banks,"(co-authored with James Heilman) in Political Science Fiction, ed. Clyde Wilcox and Donald Hassler University of South Carolina Press, 2008.听 听
• "Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy: A Failure of Weberian Activism," (coauthored with Stuart J. Kaufman), in Perspectives on Politics, 2007.听 听听
• Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West, University of Michigan Press, 2006.听 听
• "Making Sense of Making Sense: Configurational Analysis and the Double Hermeneutic," in Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn, ed. Dvora Yanow and Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, M. E. Sharpe, 2006.听 听
• "The Present as History," in The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, ed. Charles Tilly and Robert Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2006听 听
• "Global Hero: Harry Potter Abroad," (co-authored with Peter Mandaville), in Harry Potter and International Relations, ed. Daniel H. Nexon and Iver B. Neumann, Routledge Press, 2006.

Professional Presentations

• 鈥淐ausal and Interpretive Explanations,鈥� NUPI鈥擭orwegian Institute of International Affairs, 13 August 2018.

• 鈥淚nternational Studies As A Global Field,鈥� Seoul National University, 13 March 2018.

• 鈥淓xplanation As A Vocation: The Value of (Social-)Scientific Scholarship in a World of So-Called 鈥楢lternative Facts鈥�,鈥� keynote address at CIICUSP conference, University of S茫o Paulo, Brazil, 24 October 2017.

• 鈥淩elationalism in the Study of International Affairs鈥� (co-authored with Daniel H. Nexon), workshop on Relationalism in World Politics, University of Lancaster, May 16-17 2017.

• 鈥淓pistemic Pluralism in International Studies,鈥� University of Oslo, 4 May 2017.

• 鈥淚nterpretive Explanation in International Studies,鈥� Aberystwyth University, 2 December 2016; McGill University, 20 January 2017.

• 鈥淓pistemic Pluralism in International Studies,鈥� The New School for Social Research, 28 October 2016.

• 鈥淚nterpretive Explanation and the English School,鈥� University of California at Berkeley, 7 October 2016.

• 鈥淒ystopian Science Fiction in Popular Culture,鈥� Escape Velocity conference, 3 July 2016.

• 鈥淎 Long Time Ago In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: Star Wars and US Foreign Policy,鈥� University of Toronto, 19 February 2016.

• 鈥淚nsecurity Redux?鈥� University of Sussex, 10 December 2015.

• 鈥淎lternate Constructivism: Language Instead of Ideas,鈥� Aberystwyth University, 18 November 2015.

• 鈥淓pistemic Pluralism in International Studies,鈥� University of Tampere, 8 October 2015.

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Media Appearances

• 鈥淎 Professor鈥檚 Guide To the Galaxy,鈥� Big World podcast episode, 2018; /sis/big-world/.

• Appeared on Voice of America TV鈥擜fghanistan in connection with a segment on NATO operations in Afghanistan, April 2008.听 听

• Interviewed by Susan Kinzie, Washington Post, 20 December 2007, regarding distance education and podcasting (article appeared 31 December).听 听
• Interviewed by Stephanie Newton, Washington Business Journal, 7 July 2006, regarding the use of podcasting in the classroom.听 听

Work In Progress

• Explanation: A Pragmatic Account听(book ms. in progress)
• as-yet-untitled paper on ecotheology and climate change
• book that I (probably) won't ultimately call "everything you think you know about Max Weber is wrong" but that's the basic idea
• "Why听Star Wars听Isn't Science Fiction and Why That Matters: on the importance of genre for the analysis of popular culture and politics"
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