Benjamin Smith (born July 24, 1970) is a political scientist and Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the developing world, with a particular focus on resource wealth and politics, ethnic conflict, and regimes and regime change.

Education

Smith received a B.A. in Government and History from

Claremont McKenna College Claremont McKenna College (CMC) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. It has a curricular emphasis on government, economics, public affairs, finance, and internat ...

in 1992 and an M.A. in Middle East Studies and PhD in Political Science from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

in 1996 and 2002, respectively.

Scholarship

Smith's first book, ''Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia'' was published in 2007 by Cornell University Press. His second book,
Rethinking the Resource Curse
" was published in 2021 by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles on the politics of resource wealth in the ''American Journal of Political Science,'' ''Studies in Comparative International Development,'' ''Conflict Management and Peace Science,'' in ''The Oxford Handbook of State Transformations,'' and in the ''Routledge Handbook of Oil Politics.'' His research on ethnic conflict has been published in ''World Politics'' and ''World Development.'' His research on regimes and regime change has appeared in ''World Politics'' and in ''Perspectives on Politics''.

References

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