Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is also one of the authors of the selectorate theory. He is also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy.
He has founded a company, Mesquita & Roundell, that specializes in making political and foreign-policy forecasts using a computer model based on game theory and rational choice theory.

The new Nostradamus
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future