Religion and US Foreign Policy: the religious dimension of the American sense of mission in international affairs

Discussion with Thomas BANCHOFF, Georgetown University.

Thomas Banchoff is Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and Associate Professor in the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. His research and teaching center on religion, values, and politics, both nationally and internationally. In his talk, Thomas Banchoff will explore the religious dimension of the American sense of mission in international affairs and its foreign policy implications in an increasingly multipolar and intercultural world. Additionally, Thomas Banchoff is editor of Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (Oxford University Press, 2007), Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2008) and, with Robert Wuthnow, of Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). His book Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies will be published by Cornell University Press in early 2011. Through this series of lectures by highly distinguished guests on pressing global issues, PSIA is offering a vibrant platform for public debate in international affairs.