Jack Goldstone

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Jack Goldstone
Born
Jack A. Goldstone

(1953-09-30) September 30, 1953 (age 70)
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)Sociologist, political scientist, historian

Jack A. Goldstone (born September 30, 1953) is an American

social movements, revolutions, political demography, and the 'Rise of the West' in world history. He is an author or editor of 13 books and over 150 research articles. He is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the study of revolutions and long-term social change.[1]

Career

His work has made foundational contributions to the fields of cliodynamics, economic history and political demography.[2][3][4] He was the first scholar to describe in detail and document the long-term cyclical relationship between global population and of political rebellion and revolution.[5] He was also a core member of the "California school" in world history, which replaced the standard view of a dynamic West and stagnant East with a 'late divergence' model in which Eastern and Western civilizations underwent similar political and economic cycles until the 18th century, when Europe achieved the technical breakthroughs of industrialization.[6] He is also one of the founders of the field of political demography, studying the impact of local, regional, and global population trends on international security and national politics.[7]

Appointments

Goldstone is the Virginia E. and John T. Hazel, Jr. Professor of Public Policy and Eminent Scholar in the

USAID Democracy Assistance Programs.[11] He has been a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution
and is currently a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.

Awards

His academic awards include the

U.S. Institute of Peace, the MacArthur Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Australian Research School of Social Sciences, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the Sociological Research Association. He has been the Richard Holbrooke Visiting Lecturer at the American Academy in Berlin, the Crayborough Lecturer at Leiden University, and a Phi Beta Kappa
National Visiting Scholar.

Works

  • Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century. The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change (Springer, 2022).
  • International Handbook of Population Policies (Springer, 2022).
  • Phases of global demographic transition correlate with phases of the Great Divergence and Great Convergence, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2015)
  • Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction (2014)
  • Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics co-edited with Eric P. Kaufmann and Monica Duffy Toft (2012)
  • Understanding the Revolutions of 2011: Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies Foreign Affairs (2011)
  • "The New Population Bomb", Foreign Affairs (2010)
  • Why Europe? The Rise of the West in World History 1500–1850 (2008)
  • States, Parties, and Social Movements (2003)
  • Revolutions: Theoretical, Compararative, and Historical Studies (2003) ISBN 9780155066793
  • Goldstone, Jack A. (2016) [1991]. Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World: Population Change and State Breakdown in England, France, Turkey, and China,1600-1850 (25th Anniversary ed.). Routledge.
    ISBN 9781315408606
    . Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  • Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century (1991)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Distinguished Scholarly Book Award". American Sociological Association. April 22, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  2. ^ Turchin, Peter (August 16, 2012). "Cliodynamics: can science decode the laws of history?". The Conversation. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
  3. S2CID 144718460
    .
  4. ISBN 9780199945962
    .
  5. ISBN 9780520913752
    .
  6. ^ See, e.g., Phases of global demographic transition correlate with phases of the Great Divergence and Great Convergence. Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Volume 95, June 2015, Pages 163–169 (with Andrey Korotayev & Julia Zinkina).
  7. OCLC 960053741.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  8. ^ "Director of HKUST Institute for Public Policy". Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  9. ^ "HKUST Holds Third Inauguration Ceremony of Named Professorships for Outstanding Faculty Members". March 9, 2016.
  10. ^ "I'm Back!". March 13, 2016.
  11. ISBN 978-0-309-11736-4
    .

Further reading

External links

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