Daniel Philpott
Professor, Political Science and Peace Studies
313 Hesburgh Center for International Studies
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(617) 631-7667
Appointments as Professor
ProfessorofPoliticalScienceandPeaceStudies, Department of Political Science andJoan B.
Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, to take effect July
2013.
AssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceandPeaceStudies, Department of Political Science and
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, July 2004-
July 2013.
AssistantProfessor, Department of Political Science and Joan B. Kroc Institute for International
Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, July 2001-July 2004.
AssistantProfessor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara,
July 1996-June 2001.
Fellowship Appointments
VisitingFellow, Institute For Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, August 2009
-December 2009.
ResearchFellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in residence at Hertie School of
Governance and Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany, August 2006-August 2007.
FacultyFellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, September
2005-May 2006.
JuniorResearchAssociate, Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, 1998-99.
VisitingResearchFellow, Center of International Studies, Princeton University, 1995-96.
Education
Ph.D., Government, Harvard University, awarded March 1996.
M.A., Government, Harvard University, awarded May 1991.
B.A., High Honors, Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, May 1989.
Research and Publications
Books
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, UK: OxfordUniversity Press, 2012), pp. 352.
Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah, God's Century:Resurgent
Religion and Global Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), pp. 276.
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 339.
Edited Books
Forthcoming: Jennifer Llewellyn and Daniel Philpott, eds., Restorative Justice, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press).
Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers, Editors, Strategies of Peace:Transforming Conflict in a
Violent World (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2010).
The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional
Justice (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
Articles in Professional Journals
“The Justice of Forgiveness,” Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2013, pp. 400-
416.
“Religious Freedom in Islam: A Global Landscape,” The Journal of Law,Religion and State,
Vol. 2, 2013, pp. 3-21.
Daniel Philpott, Timothy Samuel Shah, and Monica Duffy Toft, “Response to William
Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin,” Politics, Religion &
Ideology,Vol. 13 Issue 3, September 2012, pp. 403-407 (symposium on God’s Century).
Paolo Carozza and Daniel Philpott, “The Catholic Church, Human Rights and Democracy:
Convergence and ConflictWith the Modern State,” Logos, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2012, pp.
15-43.
“Response to ‘On Communitarian and Global Sources of Legitimacy’,” Review of Politics, Vol.
73, 2011, pp. 129-134 (symposium on article by Amitai Etzioni).
“An Ethic of Political Reconciliation,” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 23, No. 4, Winter
2009, pp. 389-407.
“Has The Study of Global Politics Found Religion?” The Annual Review of Political Science,
Vol. 12, 2009, pp. 183-202.
“Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion,” American Political Science Review, Vol.
101, No. 3, August 2007, pp. 505-525.
“What Religion Brings to the Politics of Transitional Justice,” Journal of International Affairs,
Vol. 61, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 93-110.
“Religious Freedom and the Undoing of the Westphalian State,” Michigan Journal of
International Law, Vol. 25, No. 4, Summer 2004, pp. 981-998.
“The Catholic Wave,” The Journal of Democracy, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 32-46.
* Winner of Best Article Award, 2004, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
(Reprinted in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Philip J. Costopoulos, World Religions and Democracy
(Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), pp. 102-116.)
“The Challenge of September 11th to Secularism in International Relations,” World Politics,
Vol. 55, No. 1, October 2002, pp. 66-95.
“Liberalism, Power, and Authority in International Relations: On The Origins of Colonial
Independence and Internationally Sanctioned Intervention,” Security Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2,
Winter 2001/2002, pp. 117-163.
“Usurping the Sovereignty of Sovereignty?” World Politics, Vol. 53, No. 2, January 2001,
pp.297-324. (Review of works by Stephen Krasner, Rodney Bruce Hall, and Michael Ross
Fowler and Julie Marie Bunck.)
“The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations,” World Politics, Vol. 52, No. 2,
January 2000, pp. 206-45.
“Should Self-Determination be Legalized?” Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 12, Nos. 3
& 4, Autumn/Winter 2000, pp. 106-34.
(Reprinted in David C. Rapaport and Leonard Weinberg, eds., The Democratic Experience and Political
Violence (London: Frank Cass, 2001), pp. 106-34.)
“Westphalia and Authority in International Society,” Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, Annual,
1999, pp. 566-89.
"Sovereignty: An Introduction and Brief History," Journal of International Affairs,
Vol. 48, No. 2, Winter 1995, pp. 353-69.
(Reprinted in Orrin C. Judd, ed., Redefining Sovereignty (Hanover, NH: A Smith and
Kraus Book, 2005), pp. 1-16.)
"In Defense of Self-Determination," Ethics, Vol. 105, No. 2, January 1995, pp. 352-85.
Other Articles and Monographs
“Martyrs Are For Real: Point-Counterpoint: The Current State of Christian Persecution,” The
Irish Rover, April 25, 2013.
“Religious Freedom and Peacebuilding: May I Introduce You Two?” The Review of Faith and
International Affairs, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2013, pp. 31-37.
“Modern Martyrs,” America, Vol. 207, No. 14, November 12, 2012, pp. 13-18.
“Peace After Genocide,” First Things, June/July 2012, pp. 39-46.
“To Redeem the Time,” Notre Dame Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 2, Summer 2009, pp. 30-33.
“Lessons in Mercy: Justice and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Atrocities,”America, Vol.
200, No. 14, May 4, 2009, pp. 11-14.
“Reconciliation and Iraq: Faith-Based Advice for the Next President,” The Review of Faith and
International Affairs, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall 2008, pp. 9-14.
“In Search of the Twin Tolerations,” The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Vol. 6, No.
2, Summer 2008, pp. 9-12.
“The New Teaching of Reconciliation,” The Parable, Fall 2007, pp. 8-15.
“Religion, Reconciliation, and Transitional Justice: The State of the Field,” Social Science
Research Council Working Paper, October 17, 2007.
“Kashmir: riconciliazione dal basso,” Missione Oggi, February 2006, pp. 25-28. (Kashmir:
reconciliation from below.)
Daniel Philpott and Brian Cox, “What Faith-Based Diplomacy Can Offer In Kashmir,” in
David R. Smock, ed., Peaceworks: Religious Contributions to Peacemaking: When Religion
Brings Peace Not War, No. 55 (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute for Peace, 2006), pp.
5-8.
“Iraq’s Urgent Need For a Reconciliation Ethic,” America, Vol. 192, No. 12, April 4-11, 2005,
pp. 16-18.
Brian Cox and Daniel Philpott, “Faith and the United Nations,” InterDependent, Vol. 3, No. 1,
Spring 2005, pp. 32-33.
Brian Cox and Daniel Philpott, “Faith-Based Diplomacy: An Ancient Idea Newly Emergent,”
The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Vol. 1, No. 2, fall 2003, pp. 31-40.
"Sovereignty", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL =
Allen D. Hertzke and Daniel Philpott, “Defending the Faiths,” The National Interest,
No. 61, Fall 2000, pp. 74-81.
“The Christian Case for Humanitarian Intervention,” Crossroads Monograph Series on Faith
and Public Policy, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1995.
Book Chapters
“God’s Saving Justice: Faith, Reason and Reconciliation in the Political Thought
of Pope Benedict XVI,” in John C. Cavadini, Explorations in The Theology of Benedict XVI
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012), pp. 157-186 (festschrift in honorof His
Holiness, PopeBenedict XVI).
“A Foreign Policy of Religious Freedom: Theoretical and Evidentiary Foundations,” in Gerard
V. Bradley, ed., Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 175-192.
“What Religion Offers for the Politics of Transitional Justice,” in Timothy SamuelShah, Alfred
Stepan, and Monica Toft, eds., Rethinking Religion and World Affairs (New York:Oxford
University Press, 2012), pp. 149-161.
“Sovereignty,” in George Klosko, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political
Philosophy (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 561-572.
"Christianity, Reconciliation, and Peacemaking,” in Susan Allen Nan, Andrea Bartoli and
Zachariah Mampilly, eds., Peacemaking: A Comprehensive Theory and Practice(New York,
NY: Praeger Security International, 2011), pp. 257-274.
Timothy Samuel Shah and Daniel Philpott, “The Fall and Rise of Religion in International
Relations – History and Theory,” in Jack Snyder, ed., Religion and InternationalRelations
Theory (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), pp. 24-59.
“Reconciliation: A Catholic Ethic for Peacebuilding in the Political Order,” in R. ScottAppleby,
Robert Schreiter, and Gerard Powers, eds,.Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology,Ethics and Praxis
(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2010), pp. 92-124.
“Why U.S. Foreign Policy in Iraq Needs an Ethic of Political Reconciliation andHow Religion
Can Supply It,” in Jonathan Chaplin, ed., with Robert Joustra, God and GlobalOrder (Waco,
TX: Baylor University Press, 2010), pp. 171-186.
“Introduction: Searching for Strategy in an Age of Peacebuilding,” in DanielPhilpott and Gerard
F. Powers, eds., Strategies of Peace: Transforming Conflict in a Violent World (Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 3-18.
“Reconciliation: An Ethic for Peacebuilding,” in Daniel Philpott and Gerard F. Powers, eds.,
Strategies of Peace: Transforming Conflict in a Violent World (Oxford, UK: Oxford University
Press, 2010), pp. 91-118.
“When Faith Meets History: The Influence of Religion on Transitional Justice,” inThomas
Brudholm and Thomas Cushman, eds., The Religious in Response to Mass Atrocity:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 174-
212.
“After Intractable Moral Disagreement: The Catholic Roots of an Ethic ofPolitical
Reconciliation,” in Lawrence S. Cunningham, ed., Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law:
Alasdair MacIntyre and Critics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009), pp.
167-194.
“Reconciliation: An Ethic for Responding to Evil in Global Politics,” in Renee Jeffery, ed., Evil
and Moral Responsibility in World Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), pp. 115
-150.
“Global Ethics and the International Law Tradition,” in William M. Sullivan and Will Kymlicka,
eds., The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 17-37.
“Beyond Politics As Usual: Is Reconciliation Compatible With Liberalism?” in Daniel Philpott,
ed., The Politics of Past Evil: Religion, Reconciliation, and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice
(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 11-44.
Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, “Faith, Freedom, and Federation: The Role of
Religious Ideas and Institutions in European Political Convergence,” in Timothy A. Byrnes and
Peter J. Katzenstein, eds., Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2006), pp. 34-64.
“The Ethics of Boundaries: A Question of Partial Commitments,” in Sohail H. Hashmi, ed.,
Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2001), pp. 335-359.
“Self-Determination in Practice,” in Margaret Moore, ed., National Self-Determination and
Secession (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 79-102.
“Ideas and the Evolution of Sovereignty,” in Sohail H. Hashmi, ed., State Sovereignty: Change
and Persistence in International Relations (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 1997), pp. 15-49.
“On the Cusp of Sovereignty: Lessons From the Sixteenth Century,” in Luis Lugo, ed.,
Sovereignty at the Crossroads? Morality and International Politics in the Post Cold-War
World (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), pp. 37-62.
Book Reviews
Review of Colleen Murphy, A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation, in Journal of Moral
Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2013, pp. 227-230.
Review of Ivan Strenski, Why Politics Can’t Be Freed From Religion, in Politics, Religion, and
Ideology, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2012, pp. 115-117.
Review of Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, in The Hedgehog Review, Vol. 12, No. 3, Fall
2010, pp. 90-93.
Review of Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff, Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public
Employees in Transitional Societies and Leigh Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor
Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence, in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3,
September 2009, pp. 699-701.
Review of Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and
Humanitarian Intervention, in Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2003, pp. 178-
181.
“Moral Realism,” a review of Christopher Frei, Hans Morgenthau: An Intellectual Biography, in
Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring 2002, pp. 378-80.
Review of Immanuel Wallerstein, The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science For the
Twenty-First Century, in Political Studies Quarterly, Vol. 115, No. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 455-56.
“Moral Dilemmas,” a review of Frances Harbour, Thinking About International Ethics: Moral
Theory and Cases From American Foreign Policy, in Review of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 4, Fall
1999, pp. 786-89.
Review of Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber, State Sovereignty as Social Construct, in
American Political Science Review, Vol. 93, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 744-45.
Review of Harry Gelber, Sovereignty Through Interdependence, in Survival, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp.
170-172.
“The Possibilities of Ideas: A Review Essay,” Security Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4, Summer 1996, pp.
183-96.
"Book Note," a review of Judith Baker, ed., Group Rights, in Ethics, Vol. 106, No. 2.,
January 1996.
"Liberalism, Nationalism, and Community: Review of Yael Tamir's Liberal Nationalism,"
The Responsive Community, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1994, pp. 69-72.
"Public Reason: Rawls for Christians?" Review of John Rawls' Political Liberalism in Crisis,
February 1994, pp. 53-55.
Media
Interviewed on Fox News on Rebuilding Communities Through Forgiveness, April 20, 2012.
Daniel Philpott, Monica Duffy Toft, and Timothy Samuel Shah, “The Dangers of Secularism in the Middle East” The Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 2011. Find at
Daniel Philpott and Timothy Samuel Shah, on “Morning in America With Bill Bennett,” hosted by Rick Santorum, Salem Radio Network, May 20, 2011.
Guest with Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft on “The Exchange,” New Hampshire
Public Radio, May 18, 2011.
Interview, “Bin Laden: Morality of a Killing, and Hopes For an Arab Spring,” Il Sussidario,
May 13, 2011.
Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah, “God’s Partisans Are Back,”
The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, April 17, 2011.
Guest on “On Point,” hosted by Jane Clayson, WBUR, Boston Public Radio, 90.9 FM, February
19, 2008, on Alan Wolfe’s article on religion and peace in The Atlantic Monthly.
“Along With Trials, Iraq Needs Truth,” Boston Globe, December 8, 2005, p. A19.
“Pope’s Greatest Legacy Could be Forgiveness,” South Bend Tribune, June 26, 2005, p. B7.
Guest on “Odyssey,” hosted by Gretchen Helfrich, WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio, 91.5 FM,
January 27, 2005, on self-determination.
Interviewed on “The Crux of the Matter,” hosted by Phil Duncan, WARL Radio, Providence, RI,
1320 AM, May 7, 2004, on sovereignty in international relations.
“Iraq's Future Lies In Secrets Of Its Skeletons,” The Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2003. (Similar
version in South Bend Tribune, August 3, 2003, and in Kashmir Images, August, 2003).
“Just Doubts?” The Observer, February 24, 2003 (on war in Iraq).
Commentary, “Ankarlo Mornings,” KLIF Radio, Dallas, TX, 570 AM, October 15, 2002, on
George W. Bush’s comparison of prospective war in Iraq with Cuban Missile Crisis.
Brian Cox and Daniel Philpott, “A Time For Reconciliation,” San Diego Tribune, January 11,
2002, B7.
Blog Posts
“Pope Francis and Religious Freedom.” Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, April 8, 2013.
“Why We Can’t Just `Lighten Up’ Over the HHS Mandate.” Public Discourse, February 20,
2013.
“Why Christians Cannot Just ‘Lighten Up’ Over the HHS Mandate.” Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, December 17, 2012.
“The Arab Spring Needs A Season of Reconciliation,” July 9, 2012. Oxford University Press
Blog,
“Reconciliation 2012: A Local Response to Joseph Kony and the International Community,” Huffington Post, May 1, 2012.
“Kony 2012 and the Challenge of Forgiveness.” Contending Modernities: A Blog About
Catholic, Muslim, and Secular Interaction in the Modern World, April 23, 2012.
forgiveness/
“Citizens or Martyrs? The Uncertain Fate of Christians in the Arab Spring.” Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace, & World Affairs, Georgetown University, November 4, 2011.
christians-in-the-arab-spring
“Islam: A Friend or Foe of Democracy in the New Egypt?” Berkley Center for
Religion, Peace, & World Affairs, Georgetown University, June 3, 2011.
“The Right To Live.” Notre Dame Magazine (blog), January 29, 1010.
“Arguing with An-Na`im.” The Immanent Frame, July 14, 2008.
“Political theology & liberal democracy.” The Immanent Frame, January 23, 2008.
“Religion, reconciliation, and transitional justice.” The Immanent Frame, November 28, 2007.
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Lectures and Presentations
“Reconciliation in Politics?” Presented to the Phoenix Institute, University of Notre Dame, July
17, 2013.
Panelist on “The Ethics of Modern Warfare” at the Seventh Annual Religion and Foreign Policy
Summer Workshop, the Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, June 24, 2013.
“Abortion International.” Presented to the Vita Institute, University of Notre Dame, June 18,
2013.
“When God MeansWar, When God Means Peace: Explaining The Wild Variation in Religious
Politics.” Presented at a Religion and Politics Series, School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., April 9, 2013.
Comment on Kristine Kalanges, “Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law: Toward a
World Legal Tradition,” hosted by the Mellon-ISLA Interdisciplinary Workshop, "Religious
Freedoms, Modern Contexts" and co-sponsored by the Tocqueville Program for Inquiry Into
Religion and American Public Life, March 25, 2013.
“To Redeem the Time: Bringing Catholicism into Teaching of International Relations and Peace
Studies.” Presented at St. Ambrose University, March 3, 2013.
Presentation of Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation to the Moral
Theology Colloquium, University of Notre Dame, February 27, 2013.
“The Way of Reconciliation: From Injury to Restoration.” Presented at a Lenten Series at the
Washington National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., February 17, 2013.
“Reconciliation in Politics? On the Meaning of Justice in the Wake of Massive Injustice.” The
Yoder Public Affairs Lecture, Goshen College, February 6, 2013.
“Reconciliation in Politics? On The Meaning of Justice in the Wake of Massive Injustice.”
Delivered at the School of African and Oriental Studies, London, United Kingdom, November
29, 2012.
“God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics.” For the St. Lawrence Institute for
Faith and Culture and the Notre Dame Club of Eastern Kansas, Lawrence Kansas, November
14, 2012 (Notre Dame Hesburgh Lecture).
Short Address at Book Launch for Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation,
Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, October 11th, 2012.
Panelist and Speaker at “Critical Issues Symposium” on Reconciliation at Hope College,
September 26, 2012.
Short Address at Book Launch for Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation,
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, September 14th,
2012.
Panelist on “From Battleground to Common Ground: The Role of a Catholic University in
Changing the Tenor of Political Discourse,” Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre
Dame, September 10, 2012.
“Reconciliation in Politics? On The Meaning of Justice in the Wake of Massive Injustice.”
Presented to “Professors for Lunch,” University of Notre Dame, August 31, 2012.
“Abortion International.” Presented to the Vita Institute, University of Notre Dame, June 14,
2012.