Professor Ben Goldsmith
Visiting ScholarUnited States Studies Centre
Biography
Benjamin E. Goldsmith is a Visiting Scholar at the United States Studies Centre and a Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University.
His research is in the areas of international relations, comparative foreign policy, and atrocity forecasting.
He is the author of the book Imitation in International Relations: Observational Learning, Analogies, and Foreign Policy in Russia and Ukraine, as well as articles in leading academic journals including American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics, Political Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and World Politics.
His research has been supported by grants from the Australian Government’s Responsibility to Protect Fund and the Australian Research Council (ARC), including an ARC Future Fellowship (2015-18) and featured in The Economist, New York Times, Scientific American, Washington Post's Monkey Cage and elsewhere.
He is the founding President of the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science, and a member of the executives of the Pacific International Politics Conference and the Asian Political Methodology meeting.
He is an editor of the Japanese Journal of Political Science and on the editorial boards of International Relations of the Asia-Pacific and the Journal of East Asian Studies.
He holds a PhD in Political Science (Michigan 2001) and an MA in Russian Area Studies (Georgetown 1995).
Before joining ANU in 2017, he taught at other universities in Australia, Singapore, and the United States.
