Berkley Center

The list published by the School of Foreign Service demonstrates how professors continue to lead in developing, understanding, and analyzing the ideas that will transform the global order. Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (2024) offers a comprehensive and cohesive analysis of today’s challenges to human rights, suggesting that global realities call for important developments rooted in Catholic ethics.

Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari moderated a December 5 discussion of David Buckley’s new book Blessing America First: Religion, Populism, and Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration (2024), which traces how the first Trump administration’s populism affected the foreign policy bureaucracy. The webinar was sponsored by the International Studies Association.

On November 23, Senior Fellow Judd Birdsall joined an American Academy of Religion conference panel featuring scholars who have made significant impacts in engaging broader audiences via popular media outlets and multimedia platforms. Research Fellow Susan Hayward moderated the panel.

On November 28, Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari moderated a panel about global populism, considering themes of Islamism and autocracy in Turkey. The event was hosted by the European Center for Populism Studies.