Joshua S. Goldstein

Joshua S. Goldstein (born December 27, 1952) is professor emeritus of international relations at American University. He graduated BA at Stanford University 1981 and gained his doctorate at MIT 1986. He was appointed professor in 1993 and was also a research scholar in political science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

In 1993, he founded the Bosnia Support Committee which he chaired for two years.

Selected publications

 * This book examined the causes of the Kondratiev Wave, identifying production, prices, war, innovation, investment and real wages as factors. David Hackett Fischer called this book 'the best introduction...careful, honest and thought-provoking..analyzes 33 attempts by scholars to test the existence of the Kondraieff wave.' It also introduced the concept of the political midlife crisis. Goldstein returned to this subject in 2005 in a paper, 'Predictive power of long wave theory, 1989-2004'.