{"id":1788,"date":"2025-08-29T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=1788"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:27:55","slug":"religion-and-american-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/event\/religion-and-american-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion and American Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cForeign policy does not require the use of any of the good qualities peculiar to democracy but does demand the cultivation of almost all those which it lacks.\u201d (<em>Democracy in America, <\/em>Vol 1, Pt 2, Ch 5).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><u>Mark Amstutz (Wheaton College)<\/u><\/h6>\n<p>Mark Amstutz is Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Wheaton College (Ill.). He grew up in Latin America but came to the United States for his education, where he earned his BA at Houghton College and his MA and PhD at American University. For more than a decade, he served as a reserve naval attach\u00e9, retiring as a Commander from the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1993. The recipient of several teaching and scholarship awards, Amstutz\u2019s major academic interests are in international affairs and the role of ethics in the conduct of foreign relations. His textbook, <em>International Ethics,<\/em>\u00a0is currently in its fifth edition (2018). His other works include\u00a0<em>Christian Ethics and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em> (1987); <em>The Healing of Nations: The Promise and Limits of Political Forgiveness<\/em> (2005); <em>Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy<\/em> (2014); and <em>Just Immigration: U.S. Policy in Christian Perspective <\/em>(2017). His most recent book is <em>Building World Order: How the Christian Faith Fosters Global Peace, Prosperity, and Justice,<\/em> published in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6><u>Peter Feaver (Duke University)<\/u><\/h6>\n<p>Peter D. Feaver is a Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He is Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy and Co-Principal Investigator of the America in the World Consortium. He was educated at Lehigh University (BA) and Harvard University (PhD). From June 2005 to July 2007, Feaver served as Special Advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform on the National Security Council Staff at the White House, where his responsibilities included the national security strategy, regional strategy reviews, and other political-military issues. In 1993-94, Feaver served as Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council at the White House, where his responsibilities included the national security strategy review, counterproliferation policy, regional nuclear arms control, and other defense policy issues. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and is a contributor to \u201cShadow Government\u201d at ForeignPolicy.com. Feaver is author of numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and policy pieces, and contributes frequently to <em>Foreign Affairs. <\/em>His books include <em>Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States<\/em>\u00a0(1992); <em>Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations<\/em>\u00a0(2003); <em>Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force<\/em>\u00a0(2004), with Christopher Gelpi; <em>Paying the Human Costs of War<\/em>\u00a0(2009), with Christopher Gelpi and Jason Reifler; and\u00a0<em>Thanks For Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military\u00a0<\/em>(2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cForeign policy does not require the use of any of the good qualities peculiar to democracy but does demand the cultivation of almost all those which it lacks.\u201d (Democracy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":1713,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-1788","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/1788\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/tocqueville-program\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}