Judith L. Goldstein
Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication, Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Bio
Judith L. Goldstein is the Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication and the Kaye University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. Her research focuses on international political economy, with a focus on trade politics. She has written and/or edited six book including Ideas, Interests and American Trade Policy and more recently The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law and Economics of the GATT and the WTO. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals.
Her current research focuses on the political requisites for trade liberalization focusing both on tariff bargaining and public preferences. As well, she is engaged in the analysis of a large survey panel, which focuses on how economic hard times influences public opinion.
Goldstein has a BA from the University of California Berkeley, a Masters degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from UCLA.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Political Science
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Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Administrative Appointments
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Professor, Stanford University (1998 - Present)
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Associate Professor, Stanford University (1990 - 1998)
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Assistant Professor, Stanford University (1983 - 1989)
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Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford University (1981 - 1983)
Honors & Awards
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Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Chair, Faculty Senate (2020 - Present)
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Chair of board, International Organization (2020 - Present)
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Chair, Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2013 - 2020)
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Member of Editorial Board, International Organization
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Member of executive committee, International Organization
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Member of Editorial Board, World Trade Review
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Member Editorial Board, International Studies Quarterly
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Member of Editorial Board, World Politics
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Chair, University Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy, Stanford University (2011 - 2013)
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Member, Accreditation Committee, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Stanford University (2007 - 2013)
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Director, Undergraduate Program in International Relations, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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Member, Admissions Committee, International Policy Studies, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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Memberr, Department Search Committee, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
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Member, Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial, Stanford University (2009 - 2011)
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Chair, Promotion Committee for Ken Schultz, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
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Member, Department Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University (2008 - 2009)
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Member, Trustee Committee for Responsible Investment (2007 - 2008)
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Member, Search Committee for Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Stanford University (2006 - 2007)
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Director, Division of International, Comparative and Area Studies, Stanford University (2004 - 2008)
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Member, Faculty Steering Committee for the International Initiative, Stanford University (2005 - 2007)
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Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (2002 - 2005)
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Member, Committee on Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid, Stanford University (2005 - 2007)
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Member, Search Committee, Dean of Admissions, Stanford University (2005 - 2006)
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Member, President’s Committee on University Labor Practices, Stanford University (2003 - 2004)
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Member, IR/IPS Executive Committee, Stanford University (2002 - 2004)
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Member, University Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University (2000 - 2002)
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Member, Judicial Board, Stanford Unioversity (2000 - 2001)
Program Affiliations
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Program in International Relations
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Public Policy
Professional Education
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PhD, UCLA, Political Science (1983)
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MIA, Columbia University, International Affairs (1975)
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BA, UC Berkeley, Political Science (1973)
2024-25 Courses
- America and the World Economy
POLISCI 110C (Win) - America and the World Economy Non-WIM
POLISCI 110X (Win) - International Relations Theory, Part I
POLISCI 410A (Aut) - The Science of Politics: Foundational Concepts for Political Science Graduate Students
POLISCI 480 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (2)
- Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
POLISCI 219 (Spr) - Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
POLISCI 319 (Spr)
- Directed Reading and Research in International Relations
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Did Globalization Fail Britain
OSPOXFRD 20 (Spr) - International Relations Theory, Part I
POLISCI 410A (Aut) - The Science of Politics: Foundational Concepts for Political Science Graduate Students
POLISCI 480 (Aut)
2022-23 Courses
- America and the World Economy
AMSTUD 110C, INTNLREL 110C, POLISCI 110C, POLISCI 110X (Win) - International Relations Theory, Part I
POLISCI 410A (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- America and the World Economy
INTNLREL 110C, POLISCI 110C, POLISCI 110X (Win) - International Relations Theory, Part I
POLISCI 410A (Aut) - Political Science Guest Speaker Workshop
POLISCI 482B (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Did Globalization Fail Britain
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral (Program)
Kazumi Hoshino-Macdonald, Jonathan Kay, Peter Park
All Publications
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Trading Away Tariffs: The Operations of the GATT System
WORLD TRADE REVIEW
2022; 21 (2): 135-158
View details for DOI 10.1017/S1474745621000458
View details for Web of Science ID 000781062900003
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A New Era for Trade?
AJIL UNBOUND
2021; 115: 52-56
View details for DOI 10.1017/aju.2020.91
View details for Web of Science ID 000702234700003
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America and the Trade Regime: What Went Wrong?
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2021; 75 (2): 524-557
View details for DOI 10.1017/S002081832000065X
View details for Web of Science ID 000649422700013
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Is There a Future for Multilateral Trade Agreements?
HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL TRADE POLICY
2020: 174-199
View details for Web of Science ID 000661629800007
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Negotiating in the Early GATT Norms, Rules and the US Tariff Schedule
ASSESSING THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: FIT FOR PURPOSE?
2017: 75–96
View details for Web of Science ID 000445769800005
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Trading in the Twenty-First Century: Is There a Role for the World Trade Organization?
ANNUAL REVIEW OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, VOL 20
2017; 20: 545-564
View details for DOI 10.1146/annurev-polisci-051215-023043
View details for Web of Science ID 000401334000029
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America and Trade Liberalization: The Limits of Institutional Reform
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2014; 68 (2): 263-295
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020818313000490
View details for Web of Science ID 000334924600001
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Nativism or Economic Threat: Attitudes Toward Immigrants During the Great Recession
INTERNATIONAL INTERACTIONS
2014; 40 (3): 376-401
View details for DOI 10.1080/03050629.2014.899219
View details for Web of Science ID 000337359000005
- Back to Basics: State Power in the Contemporary World edited by Goldstein, J. L., Finnemore, M. NY: Oxford University Press. 2013
- Puzzles about Power Back to Basics: States and Power in a Contemporary World. 2013
- Power Politics in the Contemporary World: Lessons from the Scholarship of Stephen Krasner Back to Basics: States and Power in a Contemporary World 2013
- Trade Liberalization and Domestic Politics Handbook on the World Trade Organization Oxford University Press. 2012
- International Institutions: An Introduction International Institutions Sage Library of International Relations. 2010
- International Institutions Sage. 2010
- Rise of Judicial Liberalization in the WTO Global Governance Princeton: Princeton Press. 2009
- Negotiate or Litigate? Effects of WTO Judicial Delegation on Domestic Trade Politics Law & Contemporary Problems 2008
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Do we really know that the WTO increases trade? Comment
8th Annual Conference of the International-Society-for-New-Institutional-Economics
AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC. 2007: 2005–18
View details for Web of Science ID 000252228800024
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Institutions in International Relations: Understanding the effects of the GATT and the WTO on world trade
Annual Meeting of the American-Political-Science-Association
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS. 2007: 37–67
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0020818307070014
View details for Web of Science ID 000244268300003
- Membership has its Privileges: Understanding the Effects of the GATT/WTO American Economic Review 2007
- The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Politics, Law and Economics of the GATT and the WTO Princeton University Press. 2005
- U.S. National Power and the Post-War Trading Regime. World Trade Review 2003
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Does party matter? An historical test using senate tariff votes in three institutional settings
JOURNAL OF LAW ECONOMICS & ORGANIZATION
2002; 18 (1): 140-154
View details for Web of Science ID 000175116100007
- Legalization and World Politics edited by Goldstein, J. L. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2001
- International Forces and Domestic Politics: Trade Policy and Institution Building in the US. International Influences and Domestic Politics edited by Skocpol, Shefter, Katznelson 2001
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Legalization and world politics - Introduction
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2000; 54 (3): 385-399
View details for Web of Science ID 000088860100002
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Legalization, trade liberalization, and domestic politics: A cautionary note
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
2000; 54 (3): 603-?
View details for Web of Science ID 000088860100010
- United States and World Trade: Hegemony by Proxy Strange Power: Shaping the Parameters of International Relations and International Political Economy London: Ashgate Publishing. 2000
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The institutional roots of American trade policy
WORLD POLITICS
1997; 49 (3): 309-?
View details for Web of Science ID A1997WZ52300001
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International law and domestic institutions: Reconciling North American ''unfair'' trade laws
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
1996; 50 (4): 541-?
View details for Web of Science ID A1996VN85400001
- Franklin Roosevelt: Ideas and Ideals Franklin Roosevelt’s Foreign Policies and Their Legacy Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. 1996
- Ideas, Interests, and American Trade Policy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1994
- Ideas and Foreign Policy: An Analytical Framework Ideas and Foreign Policy edited by Goldstein, J. L., Keohane, R. Cornell: Cornell University Press. 1993
- Ideas and Foreign Policy edited by Goldstein, J. L. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1993
- Creating GATT Rules: Ideas, Institutions and American Politics Multilateralism Matters edited by Ruggie, J. NY: Columbia University Press. 1993
- International Institutions and Domestic Politics The WTO as an International Organization Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992
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TO LOBBY OR TO PETITION - THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF UNITED-STATES-TRADE-POLICY
JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
1990; 16 (1): 119-134
View details for Web of Science ID A1990DB57600008
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THE IMPACT OF IDEAS ON TRADE-POLICY - THE ORIGINS OF UNITED-STATES AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING POLICIES
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
1989; 43 (1): 31-71
View details for Web of Science ID A1989R849900002
- The International Trade Commission: Congressional Agent or Autonomous Agency International Studies Quarterly 1989: 303-327
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IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS, AND AMERICAN TRADE-POLICY
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
1988; 42 (1): 179-217
View details for Web of Science ID A1988L919800008
- American Trade Protectionism: Institutions, Norms and Practices Northwest Journal of International Law and Business 1987: 329-364
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THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF TRADE - INSTITUTIONS OF PROTECTION
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW
1986; 80 (1): 162-184
View details for Web of Science ID A1986A725000009
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UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES - THE CASE FOR A DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
1984; 74 (2): 282-287
View details for Web of Science ID A1984SQ68400050