Professor Smith is Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science at Tufts University. His books include The French Stake in Algeria (1978), The Pattern of Imperialism (1981), Thinking Like a Communist (1987), and America's Mission: The U.S. and the Global Struggle for Democracy in the 20th Century (1999). His most recent book, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy (2001), elaborates on the notion that interest groups, including ethnic ones, often speak for America in world affairs. His work has been published in World Politics, Political Theory, International Organization, and French Politics and Society.
He has held grants from the Legrman Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the German Marshall Fund and the Woodrow Wilson Center. He was the Whitney Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1998, and was on a Fulbright in Guatemala, spring 2000.
Professor Smith holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, 1971.