Tony Smith

International & Comparative Politics
Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971

Biography

Tony Smith's books include The French Stake in Algeria (Cornell, 1978), The Pattern of Imperialism (Cambridge, 1981), Thinking Like a Communist (Norton, 1987), and America's Mission: The U.S. and the Global Struggle for Democracy in the 20th Century, (Princeton, 1994) and Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of US Foreign Policy, (Harvard, 2000). His work has been published in World Politics, Political Theory, International Organization, Foreign Affairs, and French Politics and Society.

Professor Smith has held grants from the Lehrman Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He was the Whitney Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1998 and was a Fulbright Professor in Guatemala, Spring 2000.

Recent Publications

• Forthcoming spring 2012, "American Democracy Promotion: From Wilson to Obama," in Michael Cox, editor, Great Britain, U.S. Presidents and American Democracy Promotion, Routledge.
• "From 'Fortunate Vagueness' to Democratic Globalism," in Milja Kurki and Christopher Hobson, eds., Conceptual Politics of Democracy Promotion, Routledge, Taylor, Francis, 2011.
• A Pact With The Devil: Washington's Bid for World Supremacy and the Betrayal of the American Promise Roundtable Review, 2007

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