Richard Smoke (October 21, 1944, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania – May 1995, Sarasota, California) was an American historian and political scientist.
He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1965, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in political science in 1972.
His doctoral thesis was entitled Toward the control of escalation: a historical analysis and his advisor was William W. Kaufmann.
A professor of political science, he became the Research Director of the Watson Institute's Center For Foreign Policy Development at Brown University in 1985.
[3] An internship at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies has been named in his honor.