Steve Smith (academic)

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Professor Steve Smith, M.Sc, PhD, AcSS, (born 4th February, 1952), is a prominent international relations theorist and senior university manager. Since 2002 he has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter, and since 2006 Chair of the Board of the 1994 Group.

Steve Smith has a BSc in Politics and International Studies, an MSc in International Studies and a PhD in International Relations, all from the University of Southampton. During his academic career he has written or edited 13 books, written nearly 100 academic papers and has given over 150 academic presentations in 22 countries. His most widely read work (co-authored with the late Professor Martin Hollis) is Explaining and Understanding International Relations, published by Oxford University Press. He is the editor of the prestigious Cambridge University Press / British International Studies Association series.

Professor Smith's career has included positions as Director of the Centre for Public Choice Studies at the University of East Anglia and Head of the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a department he built up to a position of international recognition. In 2001 he was elected President of the International Studies Association (ISA), only the second non-American to receive this honour; in 1999 he had been awarded the Association's Susan Strange Award for challenging received wisdom in the discipline. In 2000 Professor Smith was elected as an Academician of the Social Sciences (AcSS).

Within International Relations theory, Smith oftens writes in a postpositivist vein, and has contributed articles to edited volumes on both postmodernism in IR and critical security studies.

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• Foreign Policy Adaptation, (Gower, 1981).
• Politics and Human Nature, co-edited with Ian Forbes, (Pinter, 1983).
• International Relations: British and American Approaches, (Blackwell, 1985).
• The Cold War Past and Present, co-edited with Richard Crockatt, (Allen and Unwin, 1987).
• Belief Systems and International Relations, co-edited with Richard Little, (Blackwell, 1988).
• British Foreign Policy: Tradition, Change, and Transformation, co-edited with Michael Smith and Brian White, (Unwin Hyman, 1988).
• Explaining and Understanding International Relations, with Martin Hollis, (Clarendon Press, 1990).
• Deciding Factors in British Politics, co-edited with John Greenaway and John Street, (Routledge, 1991).
• European Foreign Policy: The European Community and Changing Perspectives in Europe, co-edited with Walter Carlsnaes, (Sage, 1994).
• International Relations Theory Today, co-edited with Ken Booth, (Polity Press, 1995).
• International Theory: Positivism and Beyond, co-edited with Ken Booth and Marysia Zalewski, (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• The Globalization of World Politics, 1st/2nd/3rd ed., co-edited with John Baylis, (Oxford University Press, 1997/2001/2005).