Professor Emeritus
Fields of Interest
Biography
CV (41.8 KB)Stephen Majeski (Ph.D., Indiana University, 1981) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science. At the end of 2024, he stepped down after fifteen years as Senior Associate Dean for Research and Infrastructure for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington. Prior to that, he served as Department Chair from 2000 to 2009. His 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, Conflict Management and Peace Science and Complexity. He also published a book co-authored with David Sylvan entitled US Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire.
Research
Selected Research
- Majeksi, Stephen J. and Sylvan, David. "Model Behavior." Foreign Policy, 2010, pp. 19-20.
- Steven Majeski and David Sylvan. "Model Behavior." Foreign Policy, January/February (2010).
- Majeski, Stephen J. and Sylvan, David. U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies, and Empire, Routledge, 2009.
- Steven J. Majeski and David Sylvan. U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies, and Empire. Routledge, 2009.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "Surviving Administrative Mandates (from a Department Chair's Perspective)" PS Political Science and Politics, vol. 37, no. 1, 2005, pp. 105-6.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "Do Exploitative Agents Benefit from Asymmetric Power in International Politics?" British Journal of Political Science, vol. 37, no. 1, 2005, pp. 745-55.
- Majeksi, Stephen, J. "Asymmetric Power Among Agents and the Generation and Maintenance of Cooperation In International Relations." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 48, 2004, pp. 455-70.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "Dealing With ‘Administrative Mandates’." Academic Leader: The Academic Newsletter for Academic Deans and Department Chairs, 2004.
- Majeski, Stephen J, and Sylvan, David. "How Foreign Policy Recommendations are Put Together: A Computational Model with Empirical Applications." International Interactions, vol. 25, no. 4, 1999, pp. 301-32.
- Majeski, Stephen J, Linden, Greg, Linden, Corina, Spitzer, Aaron. "Agent Mobility and the Evolution of Cooperative Communities." Complexity, vol. 5, no. 1, 1999.
- Majeski, Stephen J, and Sylvan, David. "A Methodology for the Study of Historical Counterfactuals." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 42, 1998, pp. 78-108.
- Majeski, Stephen J, Linden, Greg, Linden, Corina, and Spitzer, Aaron. "A Spatial Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Game Simulation with Movement." Simulating Social Phenomena, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1997, pp. 161-67.
- Majeski, Stephen J. and Sylvan, David. "Rhetorics of Place Characteristics in High Level U.S. Foreign Policy Making." Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Michigan State University Press, 1996, pp. 309-30.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "Generating and Maintaining Cooperation in International Relations: A Model of Repeated Interaction Among Groups in Complex and Uncertain Situations." International Interactions, vol. 21, 1996, pp. 265-89.
- Majeski, Stephen J. and Fricks, Shane. "Conflict and Cooperation in International Relations" Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 39, 1995, pp. 622-645.
- Majeski, Stephen J. and Fricks, Shane. "Relations Among Nation-states in a Changing Environment: A Model of Repeated Interaction Among Two Groups with Limited Information" International Interactions, vol. 19, no. 4, 1994, pp. 283-309.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "United States Defense Budgeting, Fiscal Policy, and Economic Performance." The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States, London: Routledge, 1992, pp. 217-237.
- Majeski, Stephen J., Sylvan, David, and Milliken, Jennifer L. "Theoretical Categories and Data Construction in Computational Models of Foreign Policy" Artificial Intelligence and International Politics, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991, pp. 327-346.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "An Alternative Approach to the Generation and Maintenance of Norms." The Limits of Rationality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 273-281.
- Majeski, Stephen J. "A Rule Based Model of the United States Military Expenditure Decision-making Process." International Interactions, vol. 15, no. 2, 1989, pp. 129-154.
- Majeski, Stephen J, and Stephen Cimbala. “A Recommendation Model of War Initiation: The Plausibility and Generalizability of General Cultural Rules.” Artificial Intelligence and National Security, Lexington Books, Lexington, MA, 1987, pp. 61–86.
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Technological Innovation and Cooperation in Arms Races.” International Studies Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, Butterworth Scientific, 1986, pp. 175–91
- Majeski, Stephen J. “A Methodological Perspective on Causal Analysis in Political Science.” Theories, Models, and Simulations in International Relations: Essays in Honor of Harold Guetzkow, edited by Michael D Ward, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1985, pp. 181–187.
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Expectations and Arms Races.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 29, no. 2, University of Texas Press, 1985, pp. 217–45
- Majeski, Stephen J. “The Arms Race Noninteraction Puzzle: The Effects of Concept Choice and Measurement Error on the Estimation of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Arms Race.” International Interactions, vol. 12, no. 2, Taylor & Francis Group, 1985, pp. 133–49
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Arms Races and Model Specification: The US-USSR Case.” Monograph Series on Global Development, 1984.
- Majeski, Stephen J., and David J. Sylvan. “Simple Choices and Complex Calculations: A Critique of the War Trap.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 28, no. 2, Sage Publications, 1984, pp. 316–40
- Majeski, Stephen J. “The Role of Expectations in Arms Acquisition Processes: The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Case.” International Interactions, vol. 11, no. 3-4, Taylor & Francis Group, 1984, pp. 333–56
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Arms Races as Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Games.” Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 7, no. 3, Elsevier B.V, 1984, pp. 253–66,
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Mathematical Models of the U.S. Military Expenditure Decision-Making Process.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 27, no. 3, University of Texas Press, 1983, pp. 485–514
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Dynamic Properties of the U.S. Military Expenditure Decision-Making Process.” Conflict Management and Peace Science, vol. 7, no. 1, World University Division, World Research Center, Inc., in collaboration with the WORLD UNIVERSITY of the World Academy of Science, the Field of Peace Studies and Peace Science, 1983, pp. 65–86
- Majeski, Stephen J, et al. “Modeling Precrisis Interactions: The Implications of Different Dynamic Structures.” New Dimensions in Political Science, Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1982, pp. 117–140.
- Majeski, Stephen J., and David L. Jones. “Arms Race Modeling: Causality Analysis and Model Specification.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 25, no. 2, Sage Publications, 1981, pp. 259–88
- Majeski, Stephen J, et al. “Forecasting International Crises Using Optimal Control Methodology: A Feasibility Study of the Applicability of Optimal Control Theory to Forecasting International Crises.” Bloomington, Indiana: Center for International Policy Studies, 1979.
- Majeski, Stephen J, et al. “Proposals for New Crisis Identification Procedures.” Bloomington, Indiana: Center for International Policy Studies, 1979.
- Majeski, Stephen J, et al. “Predicting International Crisis Through Stability Analysis.” Bloomington, Indiana: Center for International Policy Studies, 1979.
- Majeski, Stephen J. “Statistical Problems Associated with the Estimation of Discrete Time Crisis Interaction Models.” Bloomington, Indiana: Center for International Policy Studies, 1979.
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