Jack Snyder
Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science
International Affairs Building, Room 1327
212-854-8290
jls6@columbia.edu http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/jls6-fac.html http://www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/fac-bios/snyder/faculty.htmlJack L. Snyder is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and a Member of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Snyder’s research interests include the study of international relations theory, international security, and human rights pragmatism.
Snyder received a B.A. in government from Harvard University, a Certificate from Columbia’s Russian Institute, and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Selected Publications
With Karen Mingst, Essential Readings in World Politics (Norton, 2001; second edition, 2004; third edition, 2008; fourth edition 2011).
With Edward D. Mansfield, Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (MIT Press, 2005)
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From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (Norton Books, 2000)
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Co-edited with Barbara Walter, Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention (Columbia University Press, 1999)
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Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Cornell University Press, 1991)
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The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell University Press, 1989)
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