Mintz received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University in political science with a minor in mathematics. He then went on to receive an M.A. from Northwestern University in political science before pursuing his PhD, also at Northwestern. His research interests focus on political decision making, political marketing, behavioral political science, political psychology, strategy, and research methods.
Career
Mintz was an instructor at Northwestern University and a lecturer and then senior lecturer with tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He taught at Texas A&M University from 1986-2005. In 1993, he became the Founding Director of the Program in Foreign Policy Decision Making at Texas A&M University and remained there as the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science until 2005. He was a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia University, the Lyndon Johnson School at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. He moved to IDC Herzliya in Israel in 2006 as a professor, before becoming the dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy in 2008. In 2017, Mintz was appointed as Provost of IDC Herzliya. Mintz is the developer of the Decision Board, a decision-making simulator leveraging process tracing and decision science algorithms to uncover biases, decision codes, and information acquisition patterns. The platform has been used for training decision makers in both public and private organizations.
Awards and honors
2019- Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Israeli Political Science Association.
2017- Recipient of the Alexander George Best Book Award of the ISPP.
2015 - Elected as Chairman of the Israeli Political Science Association.
2005 – Recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign Policy section of the International Studies Association.
2005 – Named to the Advisory Board of the Center for Conflict Prevention and Management in Sydney, Australia.
1993 – Recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Studies Association.
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making. Cambridge University Press, 2010
New Directions for International Relations: Confronting the Method-of-Analysis Problem, Lexington Books, February 2005
Multiple Paths to Knowledge: Methodology In Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution, Lexington, 2004
Integrating Cognitive and Rational Theories of Decision Making, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Decision Making on War and Peace: The Cognitive–Rational Debate. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997.
The Political Economy of Military Spending in the United States London: Routledge, 1992.
Defense, Welfare and Growth London: Routledge, 1992.
The Politics of Resource Allocation in the U.S. Department of Defense: International Crises and Domestic Constraints''. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1988.
