Senior Research Fellow
September 27, 2023
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.
September 6, 2023
Peter Mandaville Quoted in the Conversation on "Moderate Islam"
July 21, 2023
Peter Mandaville is a Berkley Center senior research fellow and, from 2022-2024, a senior advisor on religion and inclusive societies at the United States Institute of Peace. He is a professor of international affairs at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, where he also serves as the director of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies. Previous government experience includes serving as a member of the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff (2011-2012) and as a senior advisor in the department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs (2015-2016). He has also been a visiting senior fellow at the Pew Research Center. His research focuses on the intersection of religion and international affairs, with a primary focus on Islam and the Muslim world. His publications include, among others, Wahhabism and the World (2022), Islam and Politics (2014, 2020), Global Political Islam (2007), and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (2001). He holds degrees from the University of St. Andrews and the University of Kent and has studied at the American University in Cairo.
