Benjamin E. Goldsmith is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. His research and teaching are in the areas of international relations, comparative foreign policy, and political psychology. 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 European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Politics and Security Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (Michigan 2001) and an M.A. in Russian Area Studies (Georgetown 1995). Before joining the University of Sydney in 2008, he previously taught at other universities in Australia, Singapore, and the United States.

For reviews of his 2005 book see: International Studies Review 8, 2006; Slavic Review 65, 2, 2006; Choice 43, 11, 2006. A summary can be found here.

In 2009 Dr. Goldsmith is co-organizing the 3rd Australasian Conference on the Economics and Politics of War and Peace (26-27 June, University of Sydney).

During 2009 Dr. Goldsmith will also hold a Research Associate position with the United States Study Centre, Sydney.

In the Department, he teaches undergraduate and post-graduate units on International Security and on U.S. Foreign Policy

• War and peace
• Defense spending
• Public opinion and foreign policy
• Learning and cognition in international relations

2009

Article/s

Goldsmith, B.E., Horiuchi, Y. “Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion,” Journal of Politics (forthcoming 2009).

Other

Goot, M, Goldsmith B.E. “Australia’s War in Iraq : Policy, Rhetoric and Public Opinion,” in Richard Sobel, Peter Furia, and Bethany Barratt, eds. International Public Opinion and the War in Iraq Washington, DC: Potomac Books (forthcoming 2009).

2008

Articles

Goldsmith B.E., Chalup, S.K., Quinlan M.J. “Regime Type and International Conflict: Towards a general model,” Journal of Peace Research 45, 6(2008) 743-763.

Goldsmith B.E., He B. “Letting Go without a Fight: Decolonization, Democracy, and War, 1900-94,” Journal of Peace Research 45, 5(2008) 587-611.

Other

Goldsmith, B.E. “International Trade, Dependence, Conflict, and War: What you count counts,” invited talk at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Brisbane, 10 October 2008.

Goldsmith, B.E., Cai, X., Sowmya, A. “Is International Trade Associated with Peace or War? Some new measures and methods,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 28-31 August 2008.

Goldsmith, B.E. “Globalization and Interstate Conflict: Does increased trade lead to increased conflict?” paper presented at the Second Australasian Conference on Economics and Politics of War and Peace, Sydney, 25-26 July 2008.

Goldsmith, B.E., Horiuchi, Y. “US Public Diplomacy and International Public Opinion,” invited talk at the United States Study Centre, University of Sydney, 20 June 2008.

Goldsmith, B.E. “International Trade and Deadly Conflict: Some new analysis,” invited talk for the Seminar Series, Department of Economics, University of Western Sydney, 15 April 2008.

2007

Articles

Goldsmith B.E. “Arms Racing in ‘Space’: Spatial Modeling of Military Spending around the World,” Australian Journal of Political Science 42, 3 (2007): 419-440.

Goldsmith B.E. “Defense Effort and Institutional Theories of Democratic Peace and Victory: Why try harder?” Security Studies 16, 2 (2007): 189-222.

Goldsmith B.E. “A Liberal Peace in Asia?” Journal of Peace Research 44, 1 (2007): 5-27.

Other

Goldsmith B.E. Survey: At the invitation of Prof. Murray Goot, Survey Director, played a large role in designing the 2007 national opinion survey of Australia conducted by the United States Study Centre, University of Sydney.

Goldsmith B.E. “Working Group on Public Opinion and the War in Iraq” chaired by Prof. Ole Holsti, invited participant, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 30 August–2 September 2007.

Goldsmith B.E. “Defense Effort, Political Competition, and Theories of Democratic Peace” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 30 August–2 September 2007.

Goldsmith B.E., Horiuchi Y. “U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion: Rally around the Stars and Stripes?”, poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 30 August–2 September 2007.

Goldsmith B.E. “Unemployment and Diversionary Conflict,” Australasian Conference on Security, Peace Economics, and Peace Science, University of Western Sydney, 17-18 August 2007.

Goldsmith B.E., Horiuchi Y. “Spinning the Globe? U.S. Public Diplomacy and Foreign Public Opinion,” invited talk, Conference on Comparative Public Diplomacy: Australia, Japan, and the Asia Pacific, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 6 March 2007.

2006

Articles

Goldsmith B.E. “A Universal Proposition?: Region, Conflict, War, and the Robustness of the Liberal Peace,” European Journal of International Relations 12, 4 (2006): 533-563.

Goldsmith B.E. “Regime Type, Post-Materialism, and International Public Opinion about U.S. Foreign Policy: The Afghan and Iraqi wars,” Japanese Journal of Political Science 7, 1 (2006): 23-39.

Other

Goldsmith B.E. “Unemployment and ‘Diversionary’ Foreign Policy around the World,” 13th National Conference on Unemployment, Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle, Australia, December 2006 [refereed].

Goldsmith B.E., Horiuchi Y. “Living with Hegemony: High and low crisis periods and perceptions of the U.S. in global public opinion” Australasian Political Studies Association meeting, Newcastle, Australia, September 2006 [refereed; accessible at http://www.newcastle.edu.au/Resources/Schools/Economics%20Politics%20and%20Tourism/APSA%202006/INTLREL/Goldsmith,%20Benjamin%20E.%20&%20Horiuchi,%20Yusaku.pdf].

Goldsmith B.E. “A Liberal Peace in Asia?” Invited talk at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 31 August 2006.

Goldsmith B.E. “Spatial Modeling of Military Spending around the World,” Second National Conference in Theory, Methods & Applications of Spatially Integrated Social Science, Melbourne, Australia, May 2006.

Goldsmith B.E., Chalup S.K., Quinlan M.J. “Regime Type and Conflict: Broadening the theory” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, March 2006 [accessible at http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p99199_index.html].

Goldsmith B.E. “Naïve Spatial Modeling of Global War Regions,” School of Economics, Politics, and Tourism Research Seminar, University of Newcastle, Australia, February 2006.

2005

Book

Goldsmith B.E. Imitation in International Relations: Observational Learning, Analogies, and Foreign Policy in Russia and Ukraine (Palgrave Macmillan 2005).

Articles

Goldsmith B.E., Horiuchi Y., Inoguchi T. “American Foreign Policy and Global Public Opinion: Who Supported the War in Afghanistan?” Journal of Conflict Resolution 49, 3 (2005): 408-429.

Horiuchi Y., Goldsmith B.E., Inoguchi T. “Global Public Opinion, Models and Methods: A Case Study of the 2001 U.S.-led War in Afghanistan” (in Japanese). Leviathan 36 (2005): 62-81.

Other

Goldsmith B.E., Chalup S.K., Quinlan M.J. “Regime Type and International Conflict: Towards a general theory”, School of Policy Research Seminar, University of Newcastle, Australia, October 2005.

2004

Other

Goldsmith B.E. “Regime Type, Post-Materialism, and International Public Opinion about U.S. Foreign Policy: The Afghan and Iraqi wars,” invited paper for Conference on Beliefs, Norms, and Values in Cross-National Surveys, University of Tokyo, December 2004.

Goldsmith B.E. “Democracy, Interdependence, International Organizations and Asian Security Debates” Discussion Paper, Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, November 2004 [accessible at: http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/degrees/pogo/discussion_papers/PDP04-8.pdf].

Goldsmith B.E. “Region, Conflict, War and the Robustness of the Liberal Peace,” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, March 2004 [accessible at: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p74144_index.html].

2003

Articles

Goldsmith B.E. “Bearing the Defense Burden, 1886-1989: Why Spend More?” Journal of Conflict Resolution 47, 5 (2003): 551-573.

Goldsmith B.E. "Imitation in International Relations: Analogies, Vicarious Learning, and Foreign Policy," International Interactions 29, 3 (2003): 237-267.

Other

Goldsmith B.E. “Democracy and the Defense Burden: Do democracies spend less on the military?” American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, Aug. 2003 [accessible at: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64449_index.html].

Goldsmith B.E. “Explaining Russian Foreign Policy in Asia,” invited paper for the seminar: Russia’s Role and Interests in the Asia-Pacific Region, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, June 2003.

Goldsmith B.E. “Bearing the Defense Burden: Theories and Correlates of Military Expenditures, 1886-1989,” International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting, March 2003, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Book Review

Goldsmith B.E. Judith Thornton and Charles E. Ziegler, eds. Russia’s Far East: A Region at Risk (Seattle, Wash.: The National Bureau of Asian Research / University of Washington Press, 2002) in Asian Journal of Political Science 11, 1 (June 2003), 124-127.

2002

Other

Goldsmith B.E. "Imitation in International Relations: Analogies, Vicarious Learning, and Foreign Policy," Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP), July 2002, Berlin.

2001

Article

Goldsmith B.E. “Economic Liberalism and Security Preferences: A Comparative Case Study of Russia and Ukraine in the 1990s,” Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 9, 3 (2001): 399-433.

Book Reviews

Goldsmith B.E. Gary K. Bertsch and William C. Potter, eds., Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States: Russia, Belarus, Kazakstan, and Ukraine (New York: Routledge, 1999) in Canadian Journal of Political Science 34, 4 (December 2001), 898-900.

Goldsmith B.E. Christopher Hemmer. Which Lessons Matter? : American foreign policy decision making in the Middle East, 1979-1987. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), in International Politics 38, 2 (Summer, 2001): 294-295.

2000

Other

Goldsmith B.E. “Cognitive Factors in Russian and Ukrainian Relations with the Council of Europe,” 32nd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), November 9-12, 2000, Denver, Colorado.

Goldsmith B.E. “The Sources of Economic Security Preferences: A Comparative Case Study of Russia and Ukraine in the 1990s,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 31-September 3, 2000, Washington, DC.

Goldsmith B.E. “Observational Learning and the Formation of Foreign Policy Preferences,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), August 31-September 3, 2000, Washington, DC.

Book Review

Goldsmith B.E. “The Psychology of Being Overtaken By Events,” [Review of Don Oberdorfer, From the Cold War to a New Era. (Baltimore, Mar.: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998)] in Peace and Conflict: The Journal of Peace Psychology 6, 3 (2000): 281-284.

1997

Other

Goldsmith B.E. “Russia, Ukraine and Kazakstan: Corporate Citizenship in Unstable Environments,” pp. 295-325 in Andrew R. McGill, et al., eds. Corporate Global Citizenship: Doing Business In the Public Eye. San Francisco: New Lexington Press, 1997.

Goldsmith B.E. “Corporate Citizenship in India: Multinational Corporate Experiences and Best Practices,” pp. 326-347 in ibid.