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Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations
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Phone: +1-202-518-3424
E-mail: jimg@gwu.edu
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Washington, DC
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Award-winning author, former State Department official, and staff member of the National Security Council. Professor of political science and international politics at George Washington University. Latest book is America Between the Wars (with Derek Chollet, PublicAffairs Books, June 2008).
Expertise:Transatlantic relations; U.S.-Russian relations; NATO; the European Union.
Experience:Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University; Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007); Policy Research Scholar, George Washington Institute of Public Policy (2005-2007); Henry Alfred Kissinger Scholar in Foreign Policy and International Relations, Library of Congress (2005-2006); Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University (2001-2005); Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution (1999-2001); Acting Director, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University (1999-2000); Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution (1998-1999); Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council (1996); Foreign Affairs Officer, Office on the New Independent States, U.S. Department of State (1995-1996); International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations (1995-1996); Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University (1991-1993); Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University (1989-1990); Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley (1988).
Selected Publications:"What the Next U.S. President Means for Europe" (The Guardian, July 12, 2008); "Kennan had a vision. Things aren't so clear now" (with Derek Chollet, Washington Post Magazine, July 13, 2008); "McCain's Choice" (with Derek Chollet, The National Interest, July 2, 2008); "The (Bill) Clinton Legacy" (with Derek Chollet; Huffington Post; June 9, 2008); “Global NATO,” Foreign Affairs (coauthor, September/October 2006); “The Faulty Premises of the Next Marshall Plan,” Washington Quarterly (coauthor, Winter 2005-2006); “What to Do About Russia,” Policy Review (coauthor, October/November 2005); “Now’s Not the Time for Europe to Go Wobbly,” Washington Post (coauthor, 2005); “Dealing with Putin,” Weekly Standard (coauthor, 2005); “A New European Divide,” Washington Post (2004); “Nationalist Strategies and European Integration,” Perspectives on Politics (coauthor, 2004); Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (coauthor, Brookings Institution Press, 2003); Not Whether But When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO (Brookings Institution Press, 1999); Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
Related Links:
Jim Goldgeier and Derek Chollett discuss America Between the Wars on Bloomberg Night Talk (July 28, 2008)
Jim Goldgeier discusses tensions within Eastern Europe on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
Opinio Juris Discussion of America Between the Wars (July 11, 2008)
James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet discuss their new book, America Between the Wars, at the Library of Congress (June 12, 2008)
James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet discuss their new book, America Between the Wars, at The Aspen Insitute (June 16, 2008)
James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet discuss their new book, America Between the Wars, on "The Leonard Lopate Show" (WNYC; June 24, 2008)
Video: James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet discuss their new book, America Between the Wars, at The Aspen Insitute (video; June 16, 2008)
James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet discuss their new book, America Between the Wars at NDN forum (March 12, 2008)
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
July 21, 2008
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Op-Ed
Guardian UK
James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet remind America’s European friends that they should not be lulled into thinking that the exit of President Bush will mean that all of the tough problems will be solved and the hard work will be over. In fact, the work is just getting started.
See more in Europe/Russia, Presidency
July 14, 2008
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Op-Ed
There seems to be rampant speculation among national security wonks about what kind of foreign policy doctrine the next president will espouse, write James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet. However, in today’s complex world the president would be better off without a “one-size-fits-all” doctrine for handling foreign affairs.
July 8, 2008
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Op-Ed
Politico
“Conservatism is breaking apart,” say Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, describing the rift that is forming between isolationists and nationalists in the Republican Party.
See more in Foreign Policy History
July 2, 2008
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Op-Ed
National Interest
Senator John McCain may describe himself as a “realistic idealist,” but this formulation does little to paper over the very real schism among Republicans about the future direction of U.S. foreign policy, write James Goldgeier and Derek Chollet.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
June 12, 2008
Podcast
The authors of a new book says it was the fall of the Berlin Wall, not the 9/11 attacks, that ushered in the biggest changes confronting U.S. foreign policymakers.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Foreign Policy History, Grand Strategy
June 3, 2008
| Speakers: | Derek H. Chollet, Co-Author, Center For a New American Security James M. Goldgeier, Co-Author, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Transcript
Co-authors Derek H. Chollet and James M. Goldgeier discuss the state of American foreign policy and their book on international relations from the fall of the Berlin Wall to September 11th.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
April 23, 2008
| Speaker: | Pierre Hassner, Emeritus Research Director, Centre D'etudes et de Recherches Internationales |
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| Presider: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, Global Governance
April 23, 2008
| Speaker: | Pierre Hassner, Emeritus Research Director, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) |
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| Presider: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to Pierre Hassner, emeritus research director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, discuss how changes in the international system have influenced the transatlantic relationship.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
See more in United States, Europe/Russia
April 8, 2008
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
When NATO leaders met last week, they did tremendous damage to enlargement policy as a whole, argue Ivo H. Daalder and James M. Goldgeier.
See more in NATO
March 27, 2008
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director, Communications and Marketing, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to CFR experts discuss the upcoming NATO summit and NATO operations in Afghanistan.
See more in Afghanistan, NATO
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March 27, 2008
| Speakers: | James M. Goldgeier, Senior Fellow for Translatlantic Relations, Council on Foreign Relations Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Anya Schmemann, Director of Communications, Council on Foreign Relations |
Transcript
See more in NATO
June 2008
| Authors: | Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Book
The authors weave a compelling narrative of how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 15, 2006
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Op-Ed
Financial Times
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, NATO
November 27, 2006
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Op-Ed
El Pais
See more in Afghanistan, NATO, Wars and Warfare, International Organizations
October 12, 2006
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
See more in NATO, Wars and Warfare
September/October 2006
| Authors: | Ivo H. Daalder James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations |
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Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
See more in Global Governance, International Organizations
July 6, 2006
James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
James M. Goldgeier, former director of Russian affairs in the National Security Council under President Clinton, says that as leading democracies head to the annual G8 meeting in St. Petersburg, the relationship between the United States and Russia "is as poor as it has been since the end of the Cold War."
See more in Russian Fed., International Organizations
Summer 2006
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Article
The American Interest
See more in United States, Foreign Policy History, Presidency
April 9, 2006
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Michael A. McFaul, Stanford University |
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Op-Ed
The Washington Post
See more in Russian Fed., Democracy and Human Rights
Winter 2005-2006
| Authors: | James M. Goldgeier, Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow for Transatlantic Relations Derek H. Chollet, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security |
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Article
The Washington Quarterly
See more in Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy History
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