Ronald Milton Schneider is a political scientist who is a professor at Queens College.
[1] Ronald Schneider was born in Minneapolis, and went to school in Valley City, North Dakota.
[2] For seven years beginning in 1963 Schneider was an associate professor of public law and government at Columbia University, where was also an active part of the Institute of Latin American Studies.
[1] While still a student at Princeton in October 1956, he was granted access to the files gathered during Operation PBHistory by the US Central Intelligence Agency, and given permission to write a book about the events surrounding the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.
[3] Despite being based on documents gathered by a CIA operation, the book did not attempt to justify the coup: Max Holland stated that it bore similarities to the work of Robert Alexander, who was critical of the policies pursued by the US in Guatemala.