Joshua Goldstein views climate change as a global security issue. An expert on war & conflict, international political economy, world energy and climate change, Goldstein is professor emeritus of international relations at American University. He is co-author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, which examines international responses to climate change.

Goldstein is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Grant, and his book War and Gender won the International Studies Association’s “Book of the Decade” award. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs and American Political Science Review, among others. Goldstein holds a B.A. in political science from Stanford University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.