Steven M. Goldstein

Bio

Steven M. Goldstein (戈迪溫) was the Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College from 1968 to 2016 and he was an Associate of the Fairbank Center and the director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University. He was a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University, and United States Naval War College. Goldstein’s research was largely related to issues of Chinese domestic and foreign policy. He published studies of Sino-American relations; Sino-Soviet relations; and the emergence of a Chinese Communist view of world affairs. His more recent focus has been on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan as well as the evolution of U.S.-Taiwan relations.

Research Interests: Chinese domestic and foreign policy; mainland China-Taiwan relations; U.S.-Taiwan relations

Selected Publications

Books

• China and Taiwan (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015)
• China at the crossroads: reform after Tiananmen (New York, N.Y.: Foreign Policy Association, 1992)
• Taiwan faces the twenty-first century: continuing the “miracle” (New York, N.Y. : Foreign Policy Association, 1997)

Other Publications

• “Taiwan: Asia’s Orphan?” The National Bureau of Asian Research, December 7. 2016
• “‘Strategic Confusion’ Hurts Taiwan,” Taipei Times, 2022
• “President Biden Says the U.S. will Defend Taiwan if China Invades,” NPR, 2022 
• “‘Ukraine Today, Taiwan Tomorrow?’” Harvard Magazine, 2022
• “A Stronger China Tests America’s ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan,” NPR, 2021
• “All Eyes on the Biden-Xi (Virtual) Summit,” Politico, 2021
• “With Heightened Rhetoric, Is US Moving Away from ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ on Taiwan?” France 24, 2021
• “America’s Taiwan Policy ‘Has Not Changed One Bit’: US Scholar,” Taiwan News, 2021
• “Shoot it Straight on Taiwan,” War on Rocks, 2021
• “The Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait is Edging Towards Conflict. Here’s How to Stop It.” Brookings Institution, 2021
• “The Ambiguity of Strategic Clarity,” War on Rocks, 2021. With Alastair Iain Johnson, Tsai Chia-Hung, and George Yin
• “First the Easy… But When the Hard? Mainland Expectations and the Second Ma Administration,” Conference Paper prepared for the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace on “Cross Strait Developments: Election and Power Succession,” July 13, 2021
• “Cross-Straits Relations in 2019,” Fairbank Center Blog, 2019