Addis Goldman is a writer and independent researcher based in Seattle, Washington, focused primarily on U.S.-China relations. He previously worked at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), a nonprofit technology policy organization founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. He holds a BA in political science from Colorado College and an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.
Select Publications
“Flash Point: David Levi Strauss’s Photography and Belief,” Artforum, November 3, 2020.
“Critics’ Picks, Casa Malaparte: Furniture, Gagosian Gallery, Davies Street, London, UK,” Artforum, July 8, 2020.
“The Task of the Publisher: Lucas Zwirner Interviewed by Addis Goldman,” BOMB Magazine, September 20, 2019.
“An Artist-Driven Video Channel: Passing-Time Reviewed,” BOMB Magazine, October 19, 2020.
“Harley Chamandy by Addis Goldman, November 8, 2024,” BOMB Magazine, November 8, 2024.
“All the World’s a Painting,” Lapham’s Quarterly, October 21, 2021.
“The Socialist Calculation Debate,” Lapham’s Quarterly, May 1, 2023.
“Evaluating the Costs and Consequences of Sanctions,” Chicago Policy Review, April 18, 2022.
“The Neomercantilists: An Interview with Eric Helleiner,” Journal of the History of Ideas, August 21, 2023.
“China and the Transformation of International Law: An Interview with Ryan Martinez Mitchell,” Journal of the History of Ideas, April 5, 2023.
“Why Carl Schmitt Matters to China,” The Hedgehog Review, October 21, 2021.
“Finding Fukuyama’s Ends,” The Hedgehog Review, July 22, 2021.
Select Co-authored Publications
Liza Tobin and Addis Goldman, “Trump Isn’t That Serious About Defeating Xi,” The Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2025.
Liza Tobin, Addis Goldman, and Katherine Kurata, “System By Design: The Evolution of China’s Military-Civil Fusion Strategy,” in The PLA’s Long March toward a World-Class MIlitary: Progress, Ambitions, and Obstacles, National Bureau of Asian Research, October 27, 2025.
Liza Tobin, Addis Goldman, and Katherine Kurata, “Beyond Fusion: Preparing for Systems Rivalry with China,” War on the Rocks, August 13, 2024.
Liza Tobin and Addis Goldman, “The US Needs a Techno-Industrial Strategy,” Project Syndicate, July 17, 2024.
Addis Goldman and Max Hancock, “The Future of Futures: On Kalshi and Prediction Markets,” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 9, 2023.
Select Acknowledged Contributions
Liza Tobin, “America First vs. China’s Brute Force Economics” in Lessons from the New Cold War: America Confronts the China Challenge, ed. Hal Brands (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025).
John J. Mearsheimer, “War and International Politics,” International Security 49, no. 4 (Spring 2025): 7–54.
Written Testimony of Liza Tobin, Commanding Heights: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in the Critical and Emerging Technologies of the 21st Century, U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, July 26, 2023.
Susan M. Gordon, Michael G. Mullen, and David Sacks, U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China, Independent Task Force Report No. 81, (Council on Foreign Relations June 2023).
Contact
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