Stacie E. Goddard is an American political scientist. She is the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science at

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. Goddard is known for her research on international order, grand strategy, and global power politics. Goddard currently serves as the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs and is a non-resident fellow of the Quincy Institute.

Biography

Goddard earned a B.A. in Political Science from

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in 1996 and a Ph.D. from

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in 2003. Her Ph.D. thesis was "Uncommon ground : the making of indivisible issues" She joined

as an assistant professor in 2005 and became the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science in 2020. She was awarded Wellesley College's highest teaching award, the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize, in 2011.

Academic work

Her first book, ''Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland'', argues that the legitimacy of Israeli historical narratives is used as a tool to secure territory. Her most recent book, ''When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order'' challenges conventional

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realist theories and argues that "great powers divine the intentions of their adversaries through rising powers’ legitimation strategies." She has published essays and op-eds in various media outlets on topics related to U.S. foreign policy, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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''. Her articles have widely appeared in ''

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, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization,

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'', and ''

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.'' Goddard has held fellowships at the Security Studies Program at MIT,

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''. In 2019, she was a visiting fellow at the

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Publications

* ''When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order''. Cornell University Press, 2018 * ''Rhetoric and Grand Strategy''. Edited with Ronald R. Krebs. special issue of ''Security Studies''. 24 (1) (Spring 2015). * ''Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland.'' New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010

References

External links

"What'd You Miss?,"
interview with Stacie Goddard on

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. October 13, 2019.
"The Return of Great Power Competition,"
panel discussion at

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. January 15, 2019
"Challenges To Democracy,"
panel discussion with Madeleine Korbel Albright,

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, and

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