Joshua S. Goldstein
Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American Universityand Research Scholar, Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
32 Laurel Hill Drive, Leverett, MA 01054-9563
email: jg -at- joshuagoldstein -dot- com
Biographical Sketch
Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
NUCLEAR NOW
Co-written by Joshua S. Goldstein and Oliver Stone
Based on the book A Bright Future by Goldstein & Qvist
New York Times Critic's Pick review
Winner: CICT-UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award, Venice Film Festival, 2022
Winner: Best Feature Documentary award, BNP Paribas Green Film Festival, Krakow, Poland, 2024
"Intensely compelling, must-see. Could influence people's ideas on the nuclear-power issue the way that 'An Inconvenient Truth' moved the needle on climate change."
-- Variety
"One of the most important [films] that I've ever watched."
-- Joe Rogan
"This is the most informative film -- ever."
-- James Hansen, Director, Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, Columbia University
Watch: CNBC Interview, Davos, Jan. 2023
Watch full film free on YouTube
A Bright Future:
How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow
[with Staffan A. Qvist]
(PublicAffairs, Jan. 8, 2019)
ISBN 978-1-5417-2410-5 (hard), 978-1-5417-2411-2 (paper)
"The most important book on climate change since An Inconvenient Truth."
-- Steven Pinker, Harvard University
See book website for print, radio, TV, internet coverage.
Op Ed: "Nuclear Power Can Save the World" [with Staffan Qvist and Steven Pinker], The New York Times, Apr. 6, 2019.
Op Ed: "Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet" [with Staffan Qvist], The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 11, 2019.
Op Ed: "If We're Going to Save the Planet We've Got to Use the Nuclear Option" [with Staffan Qvist], Huffington Post, Oct. 10, 2018.
Op Ed: "Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement" [with Steven Pinker], The Boston Globe, Nov. 23, 2015.
Article: "Climate Change as Global Security Issue," Journal of Global Security Studies v.1, #1, Jan. 2016.
Article: "Energy in the World Economy, 1950-92" [ISQ, 1997] - PDF
Watch: Joshua Goldstein's lecture/slideshow, May 2024 with all updated data, Salisbury Forum, Connecticut
War and Gender:
How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
(Cambridge U. Press, 2001) Paperback 978-0-521-00180-9
Book of the Decade Award, International Studies Association
"I thoroughly recommend it to everyone who has an interest in why we humans behave the way we do."
-- Jane Goodall, Primatologist
Web page: The Women of World War I
Podcast: Prof. Goldstein on PBS "Wide Angle," Dec. 2010
Enyclopedia Article: Female Combatants
Audio: Prof. Goldstein on women at war, Minnesota Public Radio, Oct. 2006
Op Ed: "John Wayne and G.I. Jane" (Christian Science Monitor 1/10/02: 11)
Paper: "The Importance of War in the Gendered Socialization of Aggression"
Article: "War" in Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson, eds., Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
Winning the War on War:
The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
(Dutton, 2011) Paperback ISBN 978-0-452-29859-0
Book of the Year Award, Conflict Research Society
"An unusual and unorthodox approach that works very well indeed."
-- Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Radio: NPR Talk of the Nation [with Steven Pinker], Dec. 7, 2011 (30 minutes).
Videos: Peace in the 21st Century?, Oct. 2014 [4 min.].
Decline of Armed Conflict (excerpts), Oct. 2014 [3 min.].
Harvard JFK Forum [with Steven Pinker, Joseph Nye, Monica Toft, Stephen Walt], Jan. 30, 2012.
Peace Is Increasing (YouTube) (3 minutes)
Op Eds: War Really Is Going Out of Style [with Steven Pinker], The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2011.
A U.N. Road Map to Peace (with Shibley Telhami), Washington Post, Sept. 16, 2011: A11.
The Worldwide Lull in War, Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2002: 9.
Articles: Think Again: War, Foreign Policy, Sept./Oct. 2011.
Intervention Comes of Age: Lessons from Somalia to Libya [with Jon Western], Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2011.
Unpublished manuscript: Is the Current Refugee Crisis the Worst since World War II?
International Relations
(Pearson, coauthor Jon C. Pevehouse)
Eleventh Edition, 2016 ISBN 0-13-440476-9
Brief Seventh Edition, 2016 ISBN 0-13-440635-4
"[An] up-to-the-minute, engaging introductory text."
-- Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
Podcasts: Link to podcasts on the textbook website [Brief ed. podcasts]
Excerpt: "Core Principles of International Relations Theory," 2007
Short IR theory book: Principles of International Relations ISBN 0-205-65266-2
Reader: Readings in International Relations (Pevehouse/Goldstein) ISBN 0-321-35619-5
The Wounds Within:
A Veteran, a PTSD Therapist, and a Nation Unprepared
(Skyhorse, 2015, coauthor Mark I. Nickerson)
Hardbound ISBN 978-1-63220-419-6
"A powerful family drama and a reminder of the price veterans pay long after the fighting ends."
-- Oliver Stone, director, Platoon and Born on the 4th of July
The Real Price of War:
How You Pay for the War on Terror
(NYU Press, 2004)
"An important book for all Americans."
-- Wesley K. Clark, General (Ret.), Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Video: Prof. Goldstein on war costs, CSPAN2, 10/7/04 via You-Tube -- Part 1 (7:10)
Video: Prof. Goldstein on war costs, CSPAN2, 10/7/04 via You-Tube -- Part 2 (7:49)
Audio: Prof. Goldstein on war costs, KGO Radio, 6/19/11
Three-Way Street:
Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics
(Chicago, 1990)
"[An] important, innovative study."
-- Alexander George, Stanford University
Article: "Reciprocity, Triangularity, ... in the Middle East" [JCR 2001]
Article: "Reciprocity, Bullying, and ... the Bosnia Conflict" [APSR 1997]
!["Reciprocity, Bullying, and ... the Bosnia Conflict" [APSR 1997]](jgbos97.jpg){kind=link}
Long Cycles:
Prosperity and War in the Modern Age
(Yale, 1988)
"A well-balanced analysis of theories about the economic long wave."
-- Jay W. Forrester, M.I.T.
Read Entire Book Online
Article: "War and Economic History" (Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History)
Chapter: "The Predictive Power of Long Waves, 1989-2004"
Some articles and chapters on war in Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, Economic History, and Political Economy, 2001-2004.
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