Joshua Goldstein

Joshua S. Goldstein
Professor Emeritus of International Relations, American University
and Research Scholar, Dept. of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
16 Poets Corner Road, Amherst, MA 01002-1760
    (413) 256-6363          email: jg -at- joshuagoldstein -dot- com
Biographical Sketch      Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
Various news and activities in recent years

Winning the War on War:
The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
(Dutton, 2011).    Paperback ISBN 978-0-452-29859-0
Winner, Book of the Year Award, Conflict Research Society

Video: Peace in the 21st Century?, Oct. 2014 [4 min.].
Video: Decline of Armed Conflict (excerpts), Oct. 2014 [3 min.].
Op Ed: "War Really Is Going Out of Style" [with Steven Pinker], The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2011.
Video: Harvard JFK Forum [with Steven Pinker, Joseph Nye, Monica Toft, Stephen Walt], Jan. 30, 2012.
Radio: NPR "Talk of the Nation" [with Steven Pinker], Dec. 7, 2011 (30 minutes).
Article: "Think Again: War," Foreign Policy, Sept./Oct. 2011.
Article: "Intervention Comes of Age: Lessons from Somalia to Libya" [with Jon Western], Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2011.
Op Ed: "A U.N. Road Map to Peace" (with Shibley Telhami), Washington Post, Sept. 16, 2011: A11.
YouTube Video: "Peace Is Increasing" (3 minutes)
Op Ed: "The Worldwide Lull in War," Christian Science Monitor, May 14, 2002: 9.

Textbook: International Relations (Pearson, coauthor Jon C. Pevehouse).
Eleventh Edition, 2016 (ISBN 0-13-440476-9)
Brief Seventh Edition, 2016 (ISBN 0-13-440635-4)

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

Book: War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa
(Cambridge U. Press, 2001)
Winner, Book of the Decade Award, International Studies Association

Web page: The Women of World War I
Podcast: Prof. Goldstein on PBS "Wide Angle," Dec. 2010
Enyclopedia Article [pdf]: 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.

Climate Change:
Op Ed: "Inconvenient Truths for the Environmental Movement" [with Steven Pinker], The Boston Globe, Nov. 23, 2015.
Radio: Radio Boston (WBUR) interview on nuclear power and energy R&D, Dec. 1, 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

The Wounds Within:
A Veteran, a PTSD Therapist, and a Nation Unprepared
(Skyhorse, 2015).
coauthored with Mark I. Nickerson

Hardbound ISBN 978-1-63220-419-6

Book: The Real Price of War: How You Pay for the War on Terror (NYU Press, 2004)

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
Article: "War and Economic History" (Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History)
Book -- read online: Long Cycles: Prosperity and War in the Modern Age (Yale, 1988)
Chapter: "The Predictive Power of Long Waves, 1989-2004"

Other articles and chapters on war in Anthropology, Psychology, Gender Studies, Economic History, and International Relations.

Book: Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics (Chicago, 1990)
Article: "Reciprocity, Triangularity, ... in the Middle East" [JCR 2001]
Article: "Reciprocity, Bullying, and ... the Bosnia Conflict" [APSR, 1997]

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Updated Dec. 1, 2015