Promoting research, teaching, and public discussion about how statesmanship can defuse conflict and foster respectful foreign and domestic relations.
Towards a Catholic Foreign Policy
Just war doctrine is more than a legalistic checklist. Intemperance in the soul, not incorrect reasoning, is the true origin of unjust wars.
Definitions, Please!
What may seem to political practitioners to be hair-splitting philosophical distinctions can have enormous practical significance.
Democracy Promotion Abroad, Breakdown at Home
How can we continue to tell other nations what to do when our own democracy is suffering from mediocrity and decay?
The Clear Flaws in Trump’s Mount Rushmore Speech
When it comes to American Exceptionalism, the "Great Disruptor" is defaulting to the same old same old.
American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
Proponents of American hegemony simply do not wish to be persuaded by facts and arguments. The only remedy is of course to go upstream.
The Republican War over Germany
The United States is witnessing exploding debts and deficits. The United States is broke, while Germany is not.
HUMANITAS JOURNAL
A Covenant with all Mankind: Ronald Reagan’s Idyllic Vision of America in the World
Many who have heard Reagan's words have not really listened to them. They have taken away vague impressions of his rhetoric and have not fully understood the meaning and significance of what he actually said.
Unconstitutional Wars from Truman Forward
From President Truman’s initiation of war against North Korea in June 1950, presidents have exceeded constitutional and statutory authority in exercising the war power.
Allan Bloom and Straussian Alienation
The reaction of putative conservatives to the publication of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 was symptomatic of deep intellectual confusion.
The Past in the Present: Ancient Patterns in the Emergent Middle East
Contrary to the belief of many in this age of radical presentism, much of what is in the past profoundly influences the present.
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COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
Monica Duffy Toft
Senior Visiting Fellow
Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | Tufts University
Andrew J. Bacevich
Senior Visiting Fellow
Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History, Boston University
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, JCD
Archbishop for the Military Services, USA
Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
The Honorable Chas Freeman
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
The Watson Center, Brown University
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Representing the 2nd District of Hawaii
Patrick Kelly
Deputy Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus
Former House Intelligence Committee Counsel
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
Internationally renowned champion of diplomacy and peace.
Walter McDougall
Professor of History, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations
University of Pennsylvania
