Carnegie Council

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a professor of politics at New York University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

He is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy and founder of Mesquita & Roundell, which forecasts political and foreign-policy events using a computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory.

Bueno de Mesquita's books include: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics (co-authored with Alastair Smith, 2011); The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future (2010); The Logic of Political Survival (co-authored with Alastair Smith, Randolph M. Siverson, and James D. Morrow, 2003); and The War Trap (1981).

Resources by this Author:

• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
• The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
• Rational Choice
• The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
• The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
• The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future