David N. Gibbs

Professor of History
University of Arizona
PhD in Political Science, 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spotlight:

International Affairs Podcast:
D. Gibbs, “How Neocons Seized Washington,” Neutrality Studies Channel,
January 19, 2025; click here for video. For Part 2 of the interview, click here.
Also presented in Spanish, German, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, and Japanese translations.
Over 250,000 combined views.

Debate at Oxford Union: 
D. Gibbs debates Michael Chertoff, former US Secretary of Homeland Security
“Humanitarian Intervention: A Contradiction in Terms?”
Oxford Union Society, Oxford University, March 4, 2019.
For a debate transcript, click here.
For the full video, click here.

** 4-minute video synopsis of my work **

See an attack article against David Gibbs from Breitbart News.

Books:

Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide.
Columbia University Press, 2024. See Amazon listing.  
Translated Chinese edition in preparation (expected 2026).
For book reviews and author interviews, click here.

First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. 
Vanderbilt University Press, 2009. See Amazon listing. Translated into Serbo-Croatian.

The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and US Policy in the Congo Crisis.
University of Chicago Press, 1991. See Amazon listing.
Full text of book in PDF format (Part 1Part 2Part 3).

Links:

My Curriculum Vitae

Courses Offered

Publications on Afghanistan

Debate on the CIA and Academe

Debate on Political Bias in International Relations Research

Guide To Using Declassified Documents