Jack A Goldstone was born on September 30,1953 and is an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian, specializing in studies of social movements, revolutions, political demography, and the 'Rise of the West' in world history.
10 Facts About Jack Goldstone
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Jack Goldstone is an author or editor of 13 books and over 150 research articles.
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Jack Goldstone is recognized as one of the leading authorities on the study of revolutions and long-term social change.
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Jack Goldstone's work has made foundational contributions to the fields of cliodynamics, economic history and political demography.
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Jack Goldstone was the first scholar to describe in detail and document the long-term cyclical relationship between global population and of political rebellion and revolution.
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Jack Goldstone was a core member of the "California school" in world history, which replaced the standard view of a dynamic West and stagnant East with a 'late divergence' model in which Eastern and Western civilizations underwent similar political and economic cycles until the 18th century, when Europe achieved the technical breakthroughs of industrialization.
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Jack Goldstone is one of the founders of the field of political demography, studying the impact of local, regional, and global population trends on international security and national politics.
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Jack Goldstone has been a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and is currently a Global Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center.
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Jack Goldstone has won fellowships from the Council of Learned Societies, the US Institute of Peace, the MacArthur Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Australian Research School of Social Sciences, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Affairs and the Sociological Research Association.
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Jack Goldstone has been the Richard Holbrooke Visiting Lecturer at the American Academy in Berlin, the Crayborough Lecturer at Leiden University, and a Phi Beta Kappa National Visiting Scholar.