Education
Harvard University; Oberlin College.
Harvard University; Oberlin College.
In 2005-2006, he was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation where he worked on a book comparing managerial oversight with institutional investors from four countries. Concurrently, he was a fellow at The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is also a past president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs and is currently a Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
He received his Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Harvard University in 1969.
Gourevitch is well known within the International Relations community for having first coined the term "second image reversed" in his 1978 re-examination of Kenneth Waltz"s three images theory.
Gourevitch is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairs its selection committee for International Affairs Fellowships.