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Goldstein Avery Goldstein - Professor, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations
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Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1985.
M.S., University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Avery Goldstein specializes in international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. Presently he is conducting research on China’s grand strategy. He is the Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics and a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Areas of Interest
• International Relations Theory
• Strategic/Security Studies
• Chinese Politics

Selected Books and Chapters
Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security. (Stanford University Press, 2005).
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Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century : China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution. (Stanford University Press, 2000).
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From Bandwagon to Balance-of-Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978. (Stanford University Press, 1991).
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• "Parsing China's Rise: International Circumstances and National Attributes," in Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng, eds., China's Ascent: Power, Security, and The Future of International Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2008).
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• "Across the Yalu: China's Interests and the Koream Peninsula in a Changing World," in Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S, Ross, eds., New Directions in the Study of China's Foreign Policy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), pp. 131-161.
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• "Balance-of-Power Politics: Consequences for Asian Security Order," in Muthiah Alagappa, ed., Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), pp. 171-209.
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• "Structural Realism and China's Foreign Policy: Much (but never all) of the Story," in Andrew Hanami, ed., Perspectives on Structural Realism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), pp. 119-154.
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Selected Journal Articles
• "Power Transitions, Institutions, and China's Rise in East Asia: Theoretical Expectations and Evidence." The Journal of Strategic Studies Vol. 30, No. 4-5 (August-October 2007), pp. 639-682.

• "Great Expectations: Interpreting China's Arrival." International Security 22: 3 (Winter 1997/98), pp. 36-73. Reprinted as the lead chapter in Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Cote, Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller, The Rise of China (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), pp. 3-40.

• "Discounting the Free Ride: Alliances and Security in the Postwar World." International Organization 49: 1 (Winter 1995), pp. 39-71.

• "Trends in the Study of Political Elites and Institutions in the People's Republic of China: The State of the Field." China Quarterly 139 (September 1994), pp. 714-730.

• "Robust and Affordable Security: Some Lessons from the Second-ranking Powers During the Cold War." Journal of Strategic Studies 15: 4 (December 1992), pp. 476-527.

• "Explaining Politics in the People's Republic of China: The Structural Alternative." Comparative Politics 22: 3 (April 1990), pp. 301-322.

• "The Domain of Inquiry in Political Science: General Lessons from the Study of China." Polity 21: 3 (Spring 1989), pp. 517-537.

Course Sampler
International Security
Strategic Studies (Graduate Seminar)
• Contemporary Chinese Politics
• International Relations Theory (Graduate Seminar)
 
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