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James M. Goldgeier

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs

Monroe 404
2115 G Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-4352
Fax: (202) 994-7743
E-mail: jimg@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Expertise:

American foreign policy, international security politics, transatlantic relations

Background:

Professor Goldgeier received his B.A. in government from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Before joining GW in 1994, he served on the faculty at Cornell University and was a visiting research fellow at Stanford University. In 1995-96, he was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow serving at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff. He has held appointments as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, adjunct senior fellow and Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Henry A. Kissinger scholar in foreign policy and international relations at the Library of Congress, and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

At the Elliott School, Professor Goldgeier teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in U.S. foreign policy and theories of international relations. He is the author of Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy (John Hopkins, 1994), which received the Edgar Furniss book award in national and international security, and Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Brookings, 1999). Dr. Goldgeier co-authored (with Michael McFaul) Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Brookings, 2003), which received the 2004 Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations. His most recent book (co-authored with Derek Chollet) is America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11, published in June 2008 by Public Affairs. Dr. Goldgeier is also a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Courses Taught:

PSc 140 Theories of International Politics
PSc 146 U.S. Foreign Policy
PSc 240 Theories of International Politics
PSc 246 US Foreign Policy Making
PSc 249 International Security Politics

Last update: 06.02.08