Jessica L.P. Weeks is an American political scientist. She is Professor and H. Douglas Weaver Chair in Diplomacy and International Relations in the Department of Political Science at the

University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

. She is known for her work on the intersection of

domestic politics Domestic policy is a type of public policy overseeing administrative decisions that are directly related to all issues and activity within a state's borders. It differs from foreign policy, which refers to the ways a government advances its intere ...

and

international relations International relations (IR), sometimes referred to as international studies and international affairs, is the scientific study of interactions between sovereign states. In a broader sense, it concerns all activities between states—such as ...

. Her work on

audience cost In international relations theory, an audience cost is the domestic political cost that a leader incurs from his or her constituency if they escalate a foreign policy crisis and are then seen as backing down. It is considered to be one of the potent ...

s in

authoritarian regimes Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political ''status quo'', and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic votin ...

is among the most assigned work in international relations graduate training in United States universities. She has a PhD in political science from

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(2009), a Master’s degree in international history from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2003), and a B.A. in political science from

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(2001). Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Leaders, Foreign Policy, and Accountability in Non-Democracies" and advised by Kenneth Schultz.

Select publications

* ''Dictators at War and Peace''. 2014. Cornell Studies in Security Affairs,

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. * A number of articles and book chapters �
list available on WorldCat

Awards

* Karl Deutsch Award (2018) — for prominent scholars in international relations under age 40 or within ten years of defending their doctoral dissertation

References

American political scientists American women political scientists International relations scholars Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Stanford University alumni Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies alumni 21st-century American women {{US-polisci-bio-stub