[2] From 2017 to 2019, he was a visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations[3] and the 2018–19 Library of Congress U.S.-Russia Chair at the John W. Kluge Center.

Goldgeier serves as a co-principal investigator of the Bridging the Gap initiative,[8] a multi-year project named in honor of Alexander George, whose 1993 book of this title[9] encouraged scholars to pursue policy-relevant research.

Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul,[15] for which he won the 2003 Lepgold Book Prize in international relations from Georgetown University.

[17] Goldgeier is also author of "The Future of NATO," a Council on Foreign Relations Special Report (2010),[18] and Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev (The Johns Hopkins University Press 1994), for which he received the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in National and International Security.

[19][20] Goldgeier also authored Foreign Policy Careers for PhDs: A Practical Guide to a World of Possibilities alongside Tamara Cofman Wittes in 2023.