Tony Spanakos

Biography

Anthony Spanakos is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Law at Montclair State University. Previously, he taught at Tufts University, Manhattanville College, Touro College, among other universities. He was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Brasilia (2002) and the Institute for Advanced Study of Administration in Venezuela (2008), and a Visiting Fellow at the East Asia Institute in Singapore (2009, 2017). He is co-editor of Conceptualising Comparative Politics book series at Routledge.  He is the co-editor of Reforming Brazil (Lexington 2004) and Conceptualising Comparative Politics (Routledge 2015). He is the author of articles published in a number of scholarly journals including Comparative Political Studies, Telos, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, New Political Science, and Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, among others. 
Some of his more recent articles include: 

Anthony Petros Spanakos, “One, Two, Many Empires?: Empire in Northeast Asia from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century,” Telos, spring 2026, p.9-29.

   Anthony P. Spanakos, “Polemicizing Populism” Benjamin Arditi et al. Is there such a thing as populism?: 3 provocations and 5½ proposals, New York, Routledge, 2024, p. 171-179. Is there such a thing as populism?: 3 provocations and 5½ proposals, New York, Routledge, 2025, p. 171-179.

Anthony P. Spanakos and Mishella Romo Rivas.  “Brazil, Not Quite Pivotal State for a Pivoting US,” Jose Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Alexandre Uehara, Amancio Oliveira, Denilde Holzhacker, Janina Onuki, and Rafael Villa Ed. 60 Anos de. Política Externa Brasileira, 2023, p. 207-221.

Anthony Petros Spanakos, “Democratization in Venezuela: A Tocquevillean Analysis,” Suite Francais, 2023 (6), p. 65-84.

Anthony P. Spanakos and Damien Picariello, “This Place Isn’t a Prison”: Institutions, Choice, and the Case of Arkham Asylum,” Justin F Martin and Marco Favaro Eds. Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls, Lexington Press, 2023, p. 25-37.



 

Education

• AB, Princeton University
• MA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Research

Brazil, Venezuela, BRICS 
Korean Politics, Sino-Latin American Relations

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, 
Populism, Democratization, Security 
Foreign Policies of Developing Countries 
Political Theory and Popular Culture