Thomas Farr on Religion, Religious Liberty & US Diplomacy
To what extent should religion and the promotion of religious liberty abroad be part of the United States’ foreign policy? Prof. Thomas Farr — visiting associate professor at Georgetown University’s...
View ArticleDavid Smith on Religion, International Relations, and Foreign Policy
Does religion affect the way nations interact with one another? Does it affect foreign policy? And if so, why have scholars of international relations ignored the role of religion until recently?...
View ArticleJohn Owen IV on Confronting Political Islam, Historical Lessons
Can 16th century rebellions in Scotland, France, and the Netherlands be useful in helping us understand the international politics of ISIS, the Arab Spring, and other popular movements surrounding the...
View ArticleAnn Wainscott on Morocco’s Religious Foreign Policy
During the past two years, the Moroccan government has begun exporting various religious education programs as part of its foreign policy strategy in the North and West African region. Prof. Ann...
View ArticleDaniel Philpott on Defending Religious Freedom
While the promotion of religious liberty sounds relatively innocuous, there have been growing voices standing against such a foreign policy as practiced by the United States, Canada, and some Western...
View ArticleLawrence Rubin on Islam and Ideational Balancing
Can the ideas proposed by one nation-state threaten another nation-state? If so, how do the threatened nations respond? We probe these questions with respect to Islam and the two Islamic political...
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