{{Short description|American political scientist}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2017}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Jacek Kugler |image = File:Kugler_Headshot.jpg |image_size = 150px |caption = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|03|19}} |birth_place = Mstyczów, Poland |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |fields = Political Science |workplaces = Claremont Graduate University, Vanderbilt University, Boston University |alma_mater = University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan |doctoral_advisor = |academic_advisors = |doctoral_students = |notable_students = |known_for = Power transition theory |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |awards = |signature = |footnotes = }}
'''Jacek Kugler''' (born March 19, 1942) is an American political scientist and scholar of International Relations. He is the former chair of the Department of Politics and Policy at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.
Kugler is one of the founders of Power Transition Theory in International Relations Theory. His work on economic consequences of war, long term power transitions and political performance of nations have been widely debated within the field of international relations. He is a student of A.F.K Organski.
He is currently the Elisabeth Helm Rosecrans Professor of International Relations and Political Economy in the Department of International Studies, School of Politics and Economics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://transresearchconsortium.com/profiles/2016/6/25/jacek-kugler-1|title=Jacek Kugler|work=TransResearch Consortium|access-date=2018-01-22|language=en-US}}</ref> Kugler is former Fulbright scholar and research fellow<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cies.org/grantee/jacek-kugler|title=Jacek Kugler {{!}} Fulbright Scholar Program|website=www.cies.org|language=en|access-date=2018-02-05}}</ref> at the Nobel Peace Prize Institute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Research/Former-fellows|title=Former fellows|website=The Nobel Peace Prize|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-01-25|archive-date=2018-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125134829/https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Research/Former-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was President of International Studies Association (2004-5) and Peace Science Society (1995-6). He was also editor of ''International Interactions'', and editor for special issue of ''Journal of Conflict Resolution'' and ''International Studies Review''. He is also a founding member of the TransResearch Consortium.
==Education== Kugler received B.A. and M.A. from University of California, Los Angeles, and Ph.D. in political science from University of Michigan<ref name="C.V.">[http://www.cgu.edu/PDFFiles/SPE/SPE_CV/Jacek%20Kugler%20Vitae%202010.pdf CURRICULUM VITAE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320071054/http://www.cgu.edu/PDFFiles/SPE/SPE_CV/Jacek%20Kugler%20Vitae%202010.pdf |date=2012-03-20 }}, The School of Politics and Economics, Claremont Graduate University.</ref> (1973) where he studied and worked with A.F.K. Organski.<ref>[https://www.proquest.com/docview/302665600 Jacek Kugler, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR: FLUCTUATIONS IN NATIONAL CAPABILITY FOLLOWING MAJOR WARS, 1880-1970 (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1973, 358 pages)], ProQuest Database.</ref>
==Career== Before joining CGU, he taught at Vanderbilt University and Boston University. He was also visiting professor at UCLA, California Institute of Technology, and National Defense University. In addition, he was research scholar at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and Project co-director at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan.<ref name="C.V."/>
Kugler is an expert on war, peace, deterrence, power transition theory, formal decision making, political economy, economic development, and political demography. Through extensive publications on the causes and consequences of war, he has forged a reputation for innovative formal modeling and empirical analysis. His extensions of the theory of power transition explain the initiation of World War I and II and account for peaceful relations among major powers during the Cold War. Professor Kugler is pioneering a new perspective on world politics that logically and empirically challenges well-established formulations of the realist school. His formal work on policy advances agent based models that can anticipate the outcome of complex negotiations and provides systematic aid to policy makers involved in day-to-day decisions.<ref name="Bio">[http://www.cgu.edu/PDFFiles/SPE/BIOs/Jacek_Kugler_Bio.pdf Bio of Jacek Kugler] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921144557/http://cgu.edu/PDFFiles/SPE/BIOs/Jacek_Kugler_Bio.pdf |date=2010-09-21 }}, Department of Politics and Policy, CGU.</ref>
Kugler's research was funded by National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Ford Foundation, etc. He has been a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, Department of State, Department of Defense and a number of U.S agencies and private businesses. He founded the Sentia Group Inc. with Mark Abdollahian for the formal study of decision making, policy analysis and advice.<ref name="Bio"/>
==Bibliography== * ''Power Transitions: Strategies for the 21st Century'' (with A.F.K. Organski, Ronald L. Tammen, Douglas Lemke, Carole Alsharabati, Brian Efird), CSQ press, 2000. * ''Birth, Death and Taxes: Political and Demographic Transition'' (with A.F.K. Organski, T. Johnson, and Y. Cohen), The University of Chicago Press, 1984. * ''The War Ledger'' (with A. F. K. Organski), The University of Chicago Press, 1980. * ''Foundations of Power Transition Theory'' (with Tammen, Ronald, Jacek Kugler and Douglas Lemke), Oxford Encyclopedia of Empirical Relations theory, William Thompson, editor, 2017. * ''The Asian Ascent,'' International Studies Perspectives, 2006, 7, 36–42.
== ISA Student Paper Award == Jacek Kugler Political Demography and Geography Student Paper Award was established in 2014 to recognize the best paper with a political demography and geography theme presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention. Graduate students presenting at ISA are allowed to apply for the award which is screened by a committee that conduct a blind review of all nominated papers and is responsible for choosing the winner and two runners-up for the award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.isanet.org/Programs/Awards/PDG-Student-Paper|title=Jacek Kugler Political Demography and Geography Student Paper Award|website=www.isanet.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-25}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.cgu.edu/people/jacek-kugler/ Faculty Page] at Claremont Graduate University * [http://www.isanet.org/ International Studies Association] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110413215748/http://pss.la.psu.edu/ The Peace Science Society (International)] * [http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/ The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090330092901/http://www.polisci.ucla.edu/portlets/methodology Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods], from UCLA's Department of Political Science website. * [http://jcr.sagepub.com/content/43/2.toc ''Journal of Conflict Resolution''] * [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/misr.2006.8.issue-4/issuetoc ''International Studies Review''] * [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03050629.asp ''International Interactions''] * [http://transresearchconsortium.com/profiles/2016/6/25/jacek-kugler-1 TransResearch Consortium] * [http://worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2175152 Who is who?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206131530/http://worldwhoswho.com/public/views/entry.html?id=sl2175152 |date=2018-02-06 }}
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