Berkley Center

As a product of the Berkley Center's Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, this volume edited by Senior Research Fellow Peter Mandaville explores how states across multiple regions and a diverse range of faith traditions incorporate religion as an aspect of their foreign policy, with case studies that illuminate various cross-national patterns as well as continuities and discontinuities.

Writing for Time, Senior Research Fellow Julia Watts Belser reflects on prayers during Yom Kippur and contends that in order to challenge ableism, we have to teach ourselves to notice normativity and recognize the way it’s embedded in the very fabric of our lives.

Senior Research Fellow Elisa Massimino joins former senior intelligence officials, journalists, and human rights advocates in the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, formed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to advise on federal intelligence efforts.

Published in the Tablet, this article by Berkley Center Director Thomas Banchoff discusses the defining theme of Pope Francis' papacy and the heart of synodality—encounter.