The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics Author: Bruno de Mesquita / Alastair Smith Publisher: Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House Original title: The Dictator's Handbook

Bruce Bruno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Political Science at New York University, Director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has long served as an advisor to the U.S. government on national security affairs through his consulting firm in New York, and has also provided consulting services to many companies on negotiation guidance and outcome prediction. Mesquita received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1971. He served as President of the International Studies Association from 2001 to 2002. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Guggenheim Foundation Scholar. Mesquita has published 16 books and more than 120 papers, and has published a large number of articles in newspapers and periodicals such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and International Herald Tribune.

Alastair Smith is a professor of political science at New York University. He previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Rochester and his BA in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation...