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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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• “‘Does It Matter If It’s A Discipline?’ Bawled the Child,” 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.
• “The Production of Facts: Ideal-typification and the Preservation of Politics,” in Ned Lebow, ed., Max Weber and International Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 79-96.
• “Causal Claims and Causal Explanation in International Studies,” Journal of International Relations and Development 20:4 (2017), pp. 689-716.
• “Morgenthau’s Pilgrimage,” in Molly Cochran and Cornelia Navari, eds., Progressivism and US Foreign Policy Between the World Wars (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
• “Practicing (Social-)Scientific Pluralism,” 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)
• “Must International Studies Be A Science?” Millennium 43:3 (2015), pp. 942-965.
• “Fear of Relativism,” International Studies Perspectives 16:1 (2015), pp. 13-22.
• “International Theory in a Post-Paradigmatic Era: From Substantive Wagers to Scientific Ontologies” (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.�� ������
• "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.�� ��
• "Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy: A Failure of Weberian Activism," (coauthored with Stuart J. Kaufman), in Perspectives on Politics, 2007.�� ����
• Civilizing the Enemy: German Reconstruction and the Invention of the West, University of Michigan Press, 2006.�� ��
• "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.�� ��
• "The Present as History," in The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, ed. Charles Tilly and Robert Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2006�� ��
• "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

• “Causal and Interpretive Explanations,” NUPI—Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, 13 August 2018.

• “International Studies As A Global Field,” Seoul National University, 13 March 2018.

• “Explanation As A Vocation: The Value of (Social-)Scientific Scholarship in a World of So-Called ‘Alternative Facts’,” keynote address at CIICUSP conference, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 24 October 2017.

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

• “Epistemic Pluralism in International Studies,” University of Oslo, 4 May 2017.

• “Interpretive Explanation in International Studies,” Aberystwyth University, 2 December 2016; McGill University, 20 January 2017.

• “Epistemic Pluralism in International Studies,” The New School for Social Research, 28 October 2016.

• “Interpretive Explanation and the English School,” University of California at Berkeley, 7 October 2016.

• “Dystopian Science Fiction in Popular Culture,” Escape Velocity conference, 3 July 2016.

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

• “Insecurity Redux?” University of Sussex, 10 December 2015.

• “Alternate Constructivism: Language Instead of Ideas,” Aberystwyth University, 18 November 2015.

• “Epistemic Pluralism in International Studies,” University of Tampere, 8 October 2015.

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Media Appearances

• “A Professor’s Guide To the Galaxy,” Big World podcast episode, 2018; /sis/big-world/.

• Appeared on Voice of America TV—Afghanistan in connection with a segment on NATO operations in Afghanistan, April 2008.�� ��

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

Work In Progress

• Explanation: A Pragmatic Account��(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��Star Wars��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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