Patrick James (born 1957), is Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, and Director of the USC Center for International Studies.
After receiving his Ph.D in 1984, he worked at McGill University as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Political Science from 1984 to 1991.
He then served as a Professor of Political Science at Florida State University from 1991 to 1994.
These fields include International Relations, Comparative Politics, Rational Choice, and Empirical Methods.
He specialized in fields such as conflict, crisis and war, Canadian politics, collective action, expected utility and game theory, and research design and statistics.