broad political, social, and economic forces... [His] work was always rooted in the complexities of actual decision-making by real people with quirks and flaws." Jervis was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. In 2006 he was awarded the NAS Award for Behavior Research Relevant to the Prevention of Nuclear War from the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2010 Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, a high-level research program on nuclear proliferation. In 2021, he was elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Jervis was the recipient of the 1990 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Personal life and death Jervis met his wife Kathe (née Weil) Jervis in 1961 on a student trip to the Soviet Union. Together they had two daughters, Alexa and Lisa. Lisa Jervis is a co-founder of Bitch magazine. In the early 1960s, while studying for his PhD in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, Jervis participated in the Free Speech Movement. Jervis died of lung cancer on December 9, 2021, at the age of 81. Selected publications Books The Logic of Images in International Relations (Princeton, 1970) Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, 1976) The Illogic of American Nuclear Strategy (Cornell, 1985) The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell, 1989) System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton, 1997) American Foreign Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005) Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons From The Iranian Revolution And The Iraq War (Cornell, 2010) How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics (Essay Collection) (Princeton, 2017) Articles References Further reading Utter, Glenn H. and Charles Lockhart, eds. (2002). American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2nd ed.). . H-Diplo. Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part I. H-Diplo. Tribute to the Life, Scholarship, and Legacy of Robert Jervis: Part II External links Teaching and Research Practices, Views on the Discipline, and Policy Attitudes of International Relations Faculty at U.S. Colleges and Universities An interview with Robert Jervis by Theory Talks 1940 births 2021 deaths American political scientists American international relations scholars Political realists Oberlin College alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni Columbia University faculty Columbia School of International and Public Affairs faculty 20th-century American writers Political psychologists Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences