The Dignity of Difference: Avoiding the Clash of Civilizations
Religion has become a decisive force in the contemporary world, and it is crucial that it be a force...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The Dignity of Difference: Avoiding the Clash of Civilizations
A nation must think before it acts.
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Public Theology and Democracy’s Future
The 9th Annual Templeton Lecture On Religion and World Affairs The defeat of fascism, the victory of anti-colonial movements,...
The New Jihad and Islamic Tradition
On October 21, 2001, Usama bin Ladin issued a statement via al-Jazeera television. With U.S.-led military action underway in...
What the U.S. Needs to Promote in Iraq (Hint: It’s Not Democratization per se)
A Reason to Get Up in the Morning After the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived us of our...
From MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) to MUD (Multilateral Unconstrained Disruption): Dealing with the New Terrorism
Al Qaeda’s actions on September 11, 2001, demonstrated the use of a new form of warfare, requiring relatively modest...
Cold War II
The first Cold War crept in slowly and was not at all evident to most average Americans when President...
September 11: Before and After
Before we can see clearly the way ahead from the horrible events of September 11, we need to look...
Models of Humanitarian Intervention: Assessing the Past and Discerning the Future
We have been asked to consider four models of intervention. These are defined along a continuum consisting of (1)...
The Question of Humanitarian Intervention: A Conference Report
On 12-13 February 2001, the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a major conference on the question of humanitarian intervention...
Religion and International Peacemaking
Of the many facets to the relationship between religion and domestic and international politics, I want to devote most...