Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Senior Fellow

Expertise: International conflict, foreign policy formation, peace research

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University.

He is an expert on international conflict, foreign policy formation, and nation building. His current research focuses on the links between political institutions, economic growth, and political change. He is also investigating the causes and consequences of international conflict as well as national security policy forecasting and analysis.

His most recent books include The Logic of Political Survival, with Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow (MIT Press, 2003, winner of the 2004 Best Book Award from the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association), Predicting Politics (Ohio State University Press, 2002), and Principles of International Politics, 3rd edition (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2006), as well as the forthcoming Strategy of Campaigning, with Kiron Skinner, Sirhey Kudelia, and Condoleezza Rice (University of Michigan Press). He is also the author (with George Downs) of "The Rise of Sustainable Autocracy" in Foreign Affairs (September 2005) and numerous other policy pieces in major newspapers and magazines concerned with means to promote nation building and the impediments to success. Additionally, he has authored more than one hundred articles and fourteen books on politics, as well as one published novel, The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge (Ohio State University Press, 2001).

A member of the American Political Science Association, he is also a member of the International Studies Association and the Peace Science Society.

Bueno de Mesquita is a member of the board of advisers of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and former president of the International Studies Association. He currently serves on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, International Studies Perspectives, International Interactions, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals.

In 2005, Bueno de Mesquita was identified in a survey conducted by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the ten most influential political scientists in the foreign policy arena.

In 1999, Bueno de Mesquita received an honorary doctorate from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Queens College in New York recognized him in 1998 as one of its one hundred "alumni stars." In 1992, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1985, he won the Karl W. Deutsch Award in International Relations and Peace Research, given biennially by the International Studies Association to the scholar under the age of forty judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contribution to the study of international relations and peace research. He also won the Dag Hammarskjold Memorial Award for "significant contributions to international understanding," awarded by the city of New York in conjunction with the United Nations Association and Pepsico in 1966. In 1977 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

From 1984 to 1987, he worked under a Carthage Foundation grant and from 1979 to 1984 and 1988 to 1996 worked under grants from the Scaife Foundation. He has also been the recipient of several grants from the National Science Foundation and from Roger Hertog.

From 1983 to 1986, he was chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Rochester, and during 1982-1983, he was a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. He has been a visiting professor at Yale University, Cornell University, University of California at Berkeley, and New York University.

Bueno de Mesquita received his B.A. degree in 1967 from Queens College, City University of New York; his M.A. degree in political science in 1968 from the University of Michigan; and his Ph.D. degree in political science in 1971 from the University of Michigan.