James Goldgeier Professor Foreign Policy & Global Security
- Degrees
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., Government, Harvard University
- Bio
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James Goldgeier is a Professor of International Relations and served as Dean of the School of International Service at 艾可直播 University from 2011-17. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, both at Stanford University. He serves as the chair of the State Department Historical Advisory Committee and is a member of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2017-19, and in 2018-19, he held the inaugural Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations at the John W. Kluge Center. Previously, he was a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. He also taught at Cornell University, and has held a number of public policy appointments, including Director for Russian, Ukrainian and Eurasian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress, and Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2001-2005, he directed George Washington University鈥檚 Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. His most recent books are Evaluating NATO Enlargement: From Cold War Victory to the Russia-Ukraine War (co-edited with Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson) and Foreign Policy Careers for PhDs: A Practical Guide to a World of Possibilities (co-authored with Tamara Cofman Wittes). He is the recipient of the Edgar S. Furniss book award in national and international security and co-recipient of the Georgetown University Lepgold Book Prize in international relations.
Professor Goldgeier serves as a senior adviser to the initiative, which encourages and trains scholars and doctoral students to produce research oriented policy-relevant scholarship and theoretically grounded policy work, and he is co-editor of the Bridging the Gap Book Series at Oxford University Press.
Professor Goldgeier is past president of the (2015-2017).
Professor Goldgeier鈥檚 areas of expertise include contemporary international relations, 艾可直播 foreign policy, U.S.-Russia relations, the European Union, transatlantic security and NATO.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SIS-801 Schools of Thought in IR
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SIS-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment
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SIS-899 Doctoral Dissertation
Spring 2025
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SIS-898 Doctoral Continuing Enrollment