Alastair Smith: Podcast Interviews

Alastair Smith, PhD

alastairsmith

Social Scientist, Author

wp.nyu.edu

3 Interviews

Alastair Smith's Interviews

Jordan Harbinger & Alastair Smith • 16 Feb 2023 • EN

795: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part Two

Alastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University, professor of political science in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, and co-author (with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita) of The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. [This is part two of a two-

Jordan Harbinger & Alastair Smith • 14 Feb 2023 • EN

794: Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook Part One

Alastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Relations at New York University, professor of political science in the Wilf Family Department of Politics, and co-author (with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita) of The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. [This is part one of a two-

Adaam Levin-Areddy + Vanessa M. Quirk & Bruce Bueno de Mesquita + Alastair Smith • 19 Oct 2020 • EN

You Can Be a Dictator, Too (w/ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith)

Ten years ago, NYU political scientists Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith wrote "The Dictator's Handbook," which posited that all political leaders — from autocrats to democratically-elected officials — are governed by an uncomfortably similar set of rules and incentives. We thought now’s the perfect time to t