Stacie Goddard
Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2001-2002
Experience
Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2001-2002
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Winter 2008/09
"When Right Makes Might: How Prussia Overturned the European Balance of Power"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 33
By Stacie Goddard, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2001-2002
Prussia fundamentally changed the balance of power and politics in nineteenth-century Europe by justifying its expansion in a way that prevented a balancing coalition from forming: it signaled constraint, laid rhetorical traps, and demonstrated a need to secure its identity in international politics—arguments that none of the great powers could legitimately counter. Similarly, China has carefully framed its foreign policy strategy in a way that has prevented balancing against it thus far. The United States, on the other hand, only halfheartedly tried to justify the war in Iraq, which dramatically increased the cost of fighting the war. Legitimation theory, then, helps to explain why states fail to balance in seemingly predictable ways.
Winter 2007/08
"Correspondence: Time and the Intractability of Territorial Disputes"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 32
By Stacie Goddard, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2001-2002, Jeremy Pressman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2002-2003 and Ron E. Hassner
Stacie Goddard and Jeremy Pressman respond to Ron Hassner's Winter 2006/07 International Security article, "The Path to Intractability: Time and the Entrenchment of Territorial Disputes."
Winter 1998/1999
"Correspondence: Taking Offense at Offense Defense Theory"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 3, volume 23
By James W. Davis Jr., Bernard I. Finel, Stacie Goddard, Former Research Fellow, Intrastate Conflict Program/International Security Program, 2001-2002, Stephen Van Evera, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1978-1981 and 1984-1987; Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security, Charles Glaser, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1982-1985; Editorial Board Member, Quarterly Journal: International Security and Chaim Kaufmann
The usefulness of offense-defense theory is the subject of our correspondence section.
