James N. Rosenau (November 25, 1924 – September 9, 2011) was an American political scientist and international affairs scholar.
His scholarship and teaching focused on the dynamics of world politics and the overlap between domestic and foreign affairs.
He was the author of scores of articles and more than 35 books, including Turbulence in World Politics: A Theory of Change and Continuity (Princeton University Press, 1990) and Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Exploring Governance in a Turbulent World (Cambridge, 1997).
A November/December 2005 publication in Foreign Policy magazine listed Rosenau as among the most influential scholars in the field of International Affairs.
Arriving at the University of Southern California Dornsife in 1973, Rosenau served as director of the USC School of International Relations from 1976 to 1979.