| Avery Goldstein: Inaugural David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations |
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October 13, 2009,
Volume 56, No. 07
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Professor of Political Science Avery Goldstein has been named the inaugural David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations. Associate director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics and a recipient of the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, he specializes in international relations, security studies and Chinese politics.
Dr. Goldstein received both his bachelor’s degree in political science and his master’s degree in secondary education from Penn. After earning his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to Penn to join the political science faculty in 1985. A Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Dr. Goldstein is the author of numerous scholarly articles, with books including Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security and Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution.
The David M. Knott Professorship of Global Politics and International Relations has been established by David M. Knott, C’67, WG’73. Mr. Knott is a general partner of Knott Partners Management, LLC, and currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. At Penn he is a member of the Wharton School’s Graduate Executive Board and a past member of the University Committee for Undergraduate Financial Aid.
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