Jack Snyder (political scientist)
Jack Snyder | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jack Lewis Snyder February 6, 1951 |
| Awards | Karl Deutsch Award (1991) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Harvard University (A.B.) Columbia University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | International relations |
| School or tradition | Neoclassical realism |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Notable ideas | Offensive and defensive realism |
Jack Lewis Snyder (born February 6, 1951) is an American political scientist who is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations at Columbia University, specializing in theories of international relations.
Snyder's research centers around the relationship between violence and government. He is known for introducing the distinction between offensive and defensive realism into the international relations literature in his 1991 book Myths of Empire.