About
Mr. Smith: Michael Joseph Smith is the Thomas C. Sorenson
Professor of Political and Social Thought and Associate Professor
of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.
At Virginia he directs the interdisciplinary undergraduate Program
in Political and Social thought. He teaches courses on human rights,
political thought and on ethics and international relations and
is a faculty associate of the University’s Institute for
Practical Ethics. For the year 2002-2003 he will serve as Chair
of the University of Virginia Faculty Senate. Prof. Smith has
been active in promoting the inclusion of ethical questions in
university courses on international politics. In 1995, Professor
Smith led a NEH seminar for college professors on Teaching Ethics
and International Relations. For virtually every year since then,
he has participated in similar faculty workshops at places ranging
from the West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy, to
Harvard, Boston University, and the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Council
on Ethics and International Affairs in New York. Professor Smith
is the author of Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger
(LSU, 1987, Japanese translation, 1992); co-editor and co-author
of Ideas and Ideals (Westview 1992); and of numerous essays
on the ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary international politics.
With Stanley Hoffmann of Harvard University he is working on a
book about ethical choice in the contemporary world of states.
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