Richard W. Mansbach

Richard Wallace Mansbach (born 1943) is an American political scientist.

Mansbach studied political science, history, and Spanish at Swarthmore College and graduated in 1964. He then attended the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. After completing his dissertation, Mansbach joined the Swarthmore College faculty, in 1967. He became an assistant professor in 1968. Mansbach remained at Swarthmore for two years. While teaching at Rutgers University, Mansbach was named a fellow of the American Council on Education in 1981, and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. He later moved to Iowa State University.

From 1999 to 2004, Mansbach was a co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, an official journal of the International Studies Association. The ISA's Midwest Region had previously awarded Mansbach and Yale H. Ferguson the Lynne Rienner/Quincy Wright Award for their coauthored 1996 book, Polities: Authority, Identities, and Change. In 2014, Mansbach received the ISA's James N. Rosenau Award. In 2017, the ISA convened a Distinguished Scholar Panel to honor Mansbach and Ferguson. ISA–Midwest honored Mansbach again in 2021, with the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar Award.

Selected books

 * Reviews of In Search of Theory include:
 * Reviews of In Search of Theory include: