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Erik Goldstein

Picture of Erik Goldstein Erik Goldstein
Department of International Relations
152 Bay State Road
Room 330
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 353-9280
(617) 353-9290 fax
goldstee@bu.edu

Chair, Professor of International Relations. (BA, Tufts University; MA, MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; PhD, University of Cambridge)

Specialization: Diplomacy, International Relations, British Foreign Policy.

Professor Goldstein's research interests include diplomacy, formulation of national diplomatic strategies, the origins and resolution of armed conflict, and negotiation. He has published in numerous journals, including Review of International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, East European Quarterly, Historical Research, Historical Journal, and Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies. He is the author of Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916-1920 (1991); Wars and Peace Treaties (1992); The First World War's Peace Settlements: International Relations, 1918 - 1925 (2002, Italian translation, 2004); and Power and Stability: British Foreign Policy, 1865-1965 (2003). He has co-edited The End of the Cold War (1990); The Washington Conference, 1921-1922: Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability, and the Road to Pearl Harbor (1994); The Munich Crisis: New Interpretations and the Road to World War II (1999); and Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (2002). Professor Goldstein is also the founder-editor of the journal Diplomacy & Statecraft and he serves on the editorial board of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Britain and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Diplomacy at the University of Leicester (UK). He was previously Professor of International History and Deputy Director for the Centre for Studies in Security and Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham (UK) and has held appointments as Secretary of the Navy Senior Research Fellow at the Naval War College and as Visiting Scholar at the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge.  He is the President of Phi Beta Kappa, Epsilon of Massachusetts. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Wardrop Fund Grant at the University of Oxford, a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bane Fund Grant from Cambridge University, and a Hoover Presidential Library Fellowship.

Professor Goldstein teaches the following courses:

The Great Powers and the Eastern Mediterranean (IR 325)

Diplomacy and Statecraft (IR 535)

 

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