| Benjamin Smith | |
|---|---|
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Science |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative politics with a focus on oil politics and civil conflict |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
| Notable works | Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia |
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 in 1992 and an M.A. in Middle East Studies and PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington 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
- benjaminbsmith.net
- "Benjamin Smith".
- Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty: Oil Politics in Iran and Indonesia. Cornell University Press. 2007-08-02. ISBN 9780801472770.
- Smith, Benjamin (2004). "Oil Wealth and Regime Survival in the Developing World, 1960-1999". American Journal of Political Science. 48 (2): 232–46. doi:10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00067.x.
- Smith, Benjamin (2006). "The Wrong Kind of Crisis". Studies in Comparative International Development. 40 (4): 55–76. doi:10.1007/BF02686303. S2CID 55381253.
- "Resource Wealth as Rent Leverage: Rethinking the Oil-Stability Nexus". Conflict Management and Peace Science.
- Smith, Benjamin (2013). "Separatist Conflict in the Former Soviet Union and Beyond: How Different Was Communism?". World Politics. 65 (2): 350–81. doi:10.1017/s0043887113000087. S2CID 144720333.
- Smith, Benjamin (2005). "Life of the Party: The Origins of Regime Persistence and Breakdown Under Single-Party Rule". World Politics. 57 (3): 421–51. doi:10.1353/wp.2006.0004. S2CID 15529113.
- Slater, Dan; Smith, Benjamin; Nair, Gautam (2014). "Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Postcolonial State". Perspectives on Politics. 12 (2): 353–74. doi:10.1017/s1537592714000875. S2CID 73626964.