Faculty

Stephen J. Majeski Professor and Chair Department of Political Science Office: Gowen 106 (206) 543-2780 majeski@u.washington.edu Personal web page Curriculum Vitae

Stephen Majeski (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1981) is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington and has served as Department Chair for the past eight years. He research interests are international conflict and cooperation, U.S. foreign policy, computational modeling, and experimental group decision-making. He has published numerous articles concerning these areas in such journals as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions, British Journal of Political Science, and Complexity. He has just published a book co-authored with David Sylvan entitled US Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire. He also engages in experimental work assessing how groups make choices in situations of conflict and cooperation and uses agent-based modeling to simulate how agents interact in complex environments to determine the conditions under which cooperative and conflictual worlds evolve.