Stephen Sims

Stephen Sims, who received his PhD from Baylor in political science in 2015, teaches international politics at the Rochester Institute of Technology, with a special interest in international theory.

Sims is the co-editor of Realism and the Liberal Tradition:  The International Relations Theory of Whittle Johnson. (Palgrave 2016). In his “Introduction” to the collection of Johnston’s works, Sims explores the dynamic between Johnston’s realist position and his attempt to move beyond realism, as well as the relation of his thought to that of the classical realists, Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and E. H. Carr. Sims has also written on the Aristotelian-Thomist tradition in international relations, on Aristotle’s foreign policy, and international order in the thought of Machiavelli, Kant, and Aristotle. He is the co-editor of Democracy and the History of Political Thought (Lexington 2021) and contributed an essay on Cicero to that volume. 

Sims’s book, The City among Cities: Aristotle and International Relations, is forthcoming from State University of New York Press.

Sims’s s courses include International Law and Organizations, War and the State, International Political Thought, and Ethics in International Politics.