Jim Goldgeier in the Baltics

Jim Goldgeier is spending the 2026–2027 academic year as a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also a research affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, both in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. He first visited the Baltics in 1987, when he was studying the Russian language in what was then Leningrad. He has written multiple books on U.S.-NATO-Russia relations, and he served at the State Department and on the National Security Council staff in the mid-1990s working in offices managing relations with countries of the former Soviet Union.

On our trip, Professor Goldgeier will discuss the role of the Baltics in U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War and after, with particular emphasis on the integration of the region into NATO and the European Union over the past quarter century. He will also address the impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on these three countries.

• Professor Emeritus and former dean, American University School of International Service

• President-Elect, International Studies Association

• Chair, State Department Historical Advisory Committee (2021–25)

• Member, Secretary of State’s International Security Advisory Board (2022–25)

• Inaugural Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-Russia Relations (2018–19)

• Henry Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, Library of Congress (2005–06)