Jack Snyder
Affiliation
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Political Science
Research
Jack Snyder received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1981 and is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the political science department and Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His books include Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War (MIT Press, 2005); From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (Norton Books, 2000); Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. (Cornell University Press, 1991); The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell, 1984); and Civil Wars, Insecurity, and Intervention, co-editor with Barbara Walter (Columbia, 1999). His articles on such topics as democratization and war ("Prone to Violence: The Paradox of the Democratic Peace," The National Interest, winter 2005/2006), imperial overstretch, war crimes tribunals versus amnesties, international relations theory after September 11, and anarchy and culture have appeared in The American Political Science Review, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Organization, International Security, and World Politics.
A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Snyder is Acting Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia and a member of the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review and International Security. He edits the W. W. Norton book series on World Politics. He received a B.A. in government from Harvard University in 1973, the Certificate of ColumbiaÂ's Russian Institute in 1978, and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in 1981.
Selected Work
- Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. Edward Mansfield and Jack Snyder. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
- From Violence to Voting: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
- Dominoes and Bandwagons: Strategic Beliefs and Great Power Competition in the Eurasian Rimland. Eds. Robert Jervis & Jack Snyder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
See Also
- Research grant: Protecting Children from War and Ensuring their Prospects for the Future: Educating in the Context of Crisis and Transition
- Seed grant: Protecting Children from War and Ensuring their Prospects for the Future: Educating in the Context of Crisis and Transition
- Featured publication: Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War
