Peter Hopkinson Smith is a scholar of Latin American history, politics, economics, and diplomacy. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of Political Science and the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at University of California, San Diego. He previously served as a professor of history and department chairman at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and as professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Latin America In Comparative Perspective
2018
ISBN 9780429979002
Expressive Forms in Brahms's Instrumental Music
2005
ISBN 9780253023551
Talons of the Eagle, 5e
2021
ISBN 9780190854843
Talons of the Eagle
2008
ISBN 9780195320473
Labyrinths of Power
2015
ISBN 9781400871179
Democracy in Latin America
2017
ISBN 9780190611347
Smith
1969
ISBN 9780231031967
Argentina and the failure of democracy
1974
ISBN 9780299066000
Mexico, the quest for a U.S. policy
1980
ISBN 9780871240620
Los laberintos del poder
1982
ISBN 9789681200893
The challenge of integration
1993
ISBN 9781560006879
Kan Taiheiyōken to Nihon no sentaku
1995
ISBN 9784794802774
Mexico & the United States
2013
ISBN 9781588268938