Avery N. Goldstein (born 1954) is an American political scientist currently serving as the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

and a senior fellow at the

Foreign Policy Research Institute The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) is an American think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that conducts research on geopolitics, international relations, and international security in the various regions of the world and on eth ...

. His research focuses on international relations theory, strategic studies, and Chinese Politics.

Education

Goldstein holds a BA in political science (1975) and a MS in secondary education (1976) from the

, as well as a MA (1978) and PhD (1985) in political science from

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

Academic career

Goldstein joined UPenn as an assistant professor of political science in 1985. In 2009, he was appointed David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations.

Selected publications

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References

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