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Research Network Member: A New Cold War? Historical and Contemporary Ideological Competition in the International System, King’s College London, 2024-2026
Gregorio Bettiza is a member of the AHRC-funded Research Network “A New Cold War? Historical and Contemporary Ideological Competition in the International System”
The Illiberal Global Politics of Religion and Civilizations
Oxford University Press, 2024. Religious and civilizational politics are widely recognized as powerful forces challenging key norms of the liberal international order in the twenty-first century. The chapter begins by emphasizing that religions and civilizations are...
Workshop Invitation: What is the Future of “the West”? Transatlantic Political Order in an Era of War and Upheaval, Contestation of the LiberalScript (Berlin/Princeton)
Together with Princeton University and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), SCRIPTS will host two workshops What is the Future of “the West”? Transatlantic Political Order in an Era of War and Upheaval.
Workshop Invitation: Geopolitics and the Critique of Liberal Order, University of Oxford, March 2024
The rise of the political far right across western democracies in the 2010s and the Russian invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 have drawn attention to the role of illiberal and anti-liberal thought in world politics.
Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits and Ways Forward
This chapter evaluates the Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power project, providing an overview of its contributions and shortcomings, while also identifying possible avenues for future research.
Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft Power
This chapter presents evidence of religious soft power’s impact in US foreign policy in two time periods.
Civilizationism and the Ideological Contestation of the Liberal International Order
International Studies Review, 2023. Discourses and practices reproducing a world where a plurality of distinct civilizations clash or dialogue, rise or fall, color multiple facets of global politics today. How should we interpret this unexpected surge in...
Ideological Religion in World Politics
In Jonathan Leader Maynard and Mark L. Haas (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations (London: Routledge), 2022. This chapter starts by questioning the common perspective across multiple traditions that equate and reduce religion to...
Invited Talk: New Approaches to Religion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Domestic-External Nexus. Harvard Divinity School, February 24-25, 2022
On February 24-25th, a convening of Religion and Public Life and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University will bring together a small group of scholars and activists to assess the normative frameworks that shape how U.S. foreign policy thinks about the role of religion in world affairs.
Finding Faith in Foreign Policy (The Duck of Minerva)
American international-relations scholars, with a few notable exceptions, tend to treat religion as, at best, an indirect influence on U.S. foreign relations. Conventional wisdom views religion as a major force in other countries, especially Muslim ones.
Finding faith in foreign policy: religion and American diplomacy in a postsecular world
In recent decades, research into the growing entanglement of faith groups and US foreign policy has added significantly to our understanding that the country’s much-vaunted separation of church and state is not tantamount to the separation of religion and politics.
Religion and US Foreign Policy: Epistemic Communities, Regimes, and Interests
Bettiza reaches his broad conclusion through the study of religious foreign policy frameworks, or “religious foreign policy regimes,” under the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations.