Stacie E. Goddard

Stacie E. Goddard is an American political scientist. She is the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. Goddard is known for her research on international order, grand strategy, and global power politics. Goddard formerly served as the Faculty Director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs and is a non-resident fellow of the Quincy Institute.

Biography Goddard earned a B.A. in Political Science from University of Chicago in 1996 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003.

She joined Wellesley College as an assistant professor in 2005 and became the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science in 2020.

Academic work Her first book, Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland, argues that the legitimacy of Israeli historical narratives is used as a tool to secure territory.

Her most recent book, When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order challenges conventional international relations realist theories and argues that "great powers divine the intentions of their adversaries through rising powers’ legitimation strategies."

She has published essays and op-eds in various media outlets on topics related to U.S. foreign policy, including Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post. Her articles have widely appeared in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Organization, International Theory, and Security Studies. In 2019, she was a visiting fellow at LMU Munich.

Publications

When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and the Challenge to World Order. Cornell University Press, 2018 Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy: Jerusalem and Northern Ireland. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010