Draft:Lyle Goldstein

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Lyle J. Goldstein is director of the Asia Program at Defense Priorities and Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. ^[1][2] He is a national security specialist focusing on China and Russia, as well as the security issues across the Asia-Pacific and Eurasia.

Goldstein has a PhD from Princeton, an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a BA from Harvard.^[3]

Goldstein served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (NWC) for 20 years, retiring in October 2021. During his career at NWC, he founded the China Maritime Studies Institute and has been awarded the Superior Civilian Service Medal for this achievement.^[4]

As the director of the Asia Program at Defense Priorities, he oversees a range of studies that evaluate U.S. foreign policy and defense strategy in the Asia-Pacific region, including with respect to such key flashpoints as the Korean Peninsula, the South China Sea, the Sino-Indian border, and Taiwan.^[5]

At the same time, Goldstein is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is investigating the costs of great power competition with both China and Russia in association with the Costs of War Project at Watson. He is also assisting in the further development of Watson’s China Initiative.^[6]

"The New Cold War at Sea: Maritime Implications of the China-Russia Quasi-Alliance," Naval Institute Press, January 13, 2026. (co-authored with Vitaly Kozyrev)^[7]

"Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry," Georgetown University Press, May 1, 2015.

"Chinese Evaluations of the U.S. Navy Submarine Force," Scholar's Choice, February 16, 2015. (co-authored with Andrew S. Erickson and Gabriel Collins)

"Preventive Attack and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Comparative Historical Analysis," Stanford University Press, 2006.^[8]

What Trump could do to defuse Taiwan’s powder keg, Asia Times, December 25, 2025.^[9]

Target Taiwan: military risk from Chinese conquest, Defense Priorities, December 23, 2025.^[10]

Target Taiwan: prospects for a Chinese invasion, Defense Priorities, October 16, 2025.^[11]

Target Taiwan: challenges for a U.S. Intervention, Defense Priorities, October 16, 2025.^[12]

Target Taiwan: limits of allied support, Defense Priorities, October 16, 2025.

Target Taiwan: one China and cross-strait stability, Defense Priorities, October 16, 2025.

US should look before it leaps into South China Sea, Asia Times, April 18, 2025.^[13]

Second Thomas Shoal isn’t worth war with China, Asia Times, August 13, 2024.^[14]

"The US–China Naval Balance in the Asia-Pacific: An Overview," Cambridge University Press, November 10, 2017.^[15]

"Five Dragons Stirring Up the Sea: Challenge and Opportunity in China’s Improving Maritime Enforcement Capabilities," China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S Naval War College, April 2010.