D Philpott
Biographic Data
| ID | 37586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Philpott |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Philpott |
| SIGNATURE | PHILPOTT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2357-5870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 420 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Colliding ideas: Artistic explorations of data surveillance and data protection
This paper presents a case study of a pilot interdisciplinary collaboration between digital technology law scholars and academic creative practitioners leading to the public art exhibition User Content? in Belfast in the autumn of 2024. Called LawTech Collider to encapsulate the premise that communication across disciplinary boundaries is often unpredictable, this interdisciplinary collaboration was conceptualised as a collision of ideas aimed at…
How to End a War: Essays on Justice, Peace, and Repair
How and when should we end a war? What place should the pathways to a war's end have in war planning and decision-making? This volume treats the topic of ending war as part and parcel of how wars begin and how they are fought – a unique, complex problem, worthy of its own conversation. New essays by leading thinkers and practitioners in the fields of philosophical ethics, international relations, and military law reflect on the problem and show t…
Bishops of Peace
A Christian Case for Racial Reparations
National healing for the persistent wounds of racism, America’s original sin, can be advanced through a national apology, reparations and forgiveness. The frequent practice of apologies and reparations around the world in the past generation provide precedent for such measures. Christianity’s teaching of reconciliation and accompanying notions of sin, repentance, forgiveness, and atonement provide a strong moral basis for these measures and reson…
Reflections on Bain, Political Theology of International Order
William Bain sustains his audacious claim to write a landmark in international relations thought. His view that the medieval theological debate between imposed order and immanent order structures contemporary thought about international order is largely compelling, especially in light of his demonstration that certain thinkers such as Hobbes and Grotius served as transmission belts, carrying this debate into modernity. He also persuasively shows …
The Ground of Self-determination
Towards Religious Ways of Knowing: Reflections on the REL Symposium and the Future of the Field
The article issues a call for scholars of religion and global politics to reach beyond dominant positivist epistemologies and methodologies—which it does not reject—and to engage in “ways of knowing” that adopt a “first person standpoint” that aims to adopt, or at least get as close as possible to, the perspective of people and communities who practice religion. These might include understanding the phenomenon of religion itself from this standpo…
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
Christianity and Freedom
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government, consent of the governed, economic liberty, autonomous civil society, and church-state separation, as well as more recent advances in democracy…
In Defense of Religious Freedom: New Critics of a Beleaguered Human Right
Not so very long ago, the idea of religious freedom enjoyed all the self-evident virtue of a Norman Rockwell painting. Sure, Americans disagreed about what it meant in practice, leaving their Supreme Court to hash out the details. Still, however Americans differed in their religious beliefs, they espoused religious freedom and insisted that it cannot be government's job to promote any one religious sect over others or coerce anyone's conscience i…
Religion and Violence from a Political Science Perspective
This chapter presents an account for religious violence, and also evaluates institutional independence and political theology more carefully. Then, it uses these two factors to elaborate forms of religious violence: communal conflict and terrorism. Political theology and institutional independence are far from the only factors that explain religious violence, but it is proposed that they can account for communal conflict and terrorism. The analys…
Religious Freedom in Islam: A Global Landscape
This paper presents a global landscape of religious freedom in Islam, a crucial matter for resolving the contentious contemporary debate over whether Islam is a peaceful or violent religion. The landscape shows a general dearth of religious freedom in Islam. This does not mean, though, that Islam is incompatible with religious freedom, for a large percentage of Muslim countries are governed by regimes inspired by western secularism. The paper als…
The Justice of Forgiveness
Over the past generation, forgiveness has entered the political sphere in countries all over the globe that are addressing the past injustices of war, dictatorship, genocide, and the maltreatment of native peoples. Among the international community, however, the practice is controversial, criticized as unjust for burdening victims and foregoing deserved punishment. This essay argues that forgiveness is not contrary to justice but rather reflectiv…
Religious Freedom and Peacebuilding: May I Introduce You Two
Religious freedom is a critical enabler of peace. Conversely, the lack of religious freedom is a demonstrable cause of violence. Religious freedom, then, ought to be incorporated into the US government's efforts to promote global democracy, the settlement of wars, the reduction of terrorism, and other goals related to peacebuilding. Non-governmental organizations and scholars engaged in peacebuilding ought to integrate religious freedom into thei…
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored? This book offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. It challenges the approach to peacebuilding that dominates the United Nations, Western governments, and the human rights community. While this book shares their commitments to human rights and democracy, it argues that these values alone cannot redress the wounds caused by war, genocide, and dic…
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
Response to William Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin
We are honored to have God's Century reviewed in this forum by four distinguished scholars, three of whom – David Martin, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jeffrey Haynes – are among those social scientists
Sovereignty
Sovereignty has borne too many conflicting meanings over the centuries. Nevertheless, there arguably exists a definition of sovereignty that is flexible enough to accommodate much of the concept's historical diversity yet concrete enough to be meaningful: supreme authority within a territory. Authority—“the right to command and correlatively, the right to be obeyed,” in Robert Paul Wolff's definition—implies that sovereignty is a matter of right …
Response to “On Communitarian and Global Sources of Legitimacy”
Amitai Etzioni advances arguments about two forms of legitimacy, what I will call empirical legitimacy and substantive legitimacy. Empirical legitimacy is a matter of what people consider to be legitimate. It is assessed through the methods of social science—conducting surveys, for instance. Substantive legitimacy is a matter not of what people happen to think but of what is legitimate in the sense of being just or morally right. Etzioni's argume…
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations
Strategies of Peace
This volume comprises a discussion among a wide range of expert scholars and practitioners on what defines and distinguishes the concept of strategic peacebuilding. The authors respond reflexively to the failures of peacebuilding and constructively press forward an emergent paradigm shift that questions the assumptions of a state-centric and liberal approach to peace. Strategic peacebuilding, they argue, is an intentional approach to the complexi…
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
The core proposition of this article is that reconciliation, both as a process and an end state, is a concept of justice. Its animating virtue is mercy and its goal is peace. These concepts are expressed most deeply in religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The idea of justice as right relationship is also found in the contemporary restorative justice movement, an approach to criminal justice that has emerged in the pas…
Has the Study of Global Politics Found Religion
The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientist…
In Search of the Twin Tolerations
U.S. foreign policy should encourage regimes to foster the twin tolerations, permitting full religious practice and limiting religion's control of government. Political theology and differentiation (the degree of separation between church and state)determine why religious actors take particular forms of politics. Religious terrorist groups are more likely to originate in integrationist regimes, where there is low differentiation, where religious …
Reconciliation and Iraq: Faith-Based Advice for the Next President
Iraqi factions are divided by ethnicity, religion, ideology, resentments, hatreds, and desires for revenge rooted in history. The U.S. and Iraq need a jus post bellum, an ethic for building peace in Iraq. This ethic—reconciliation—is a holistic project of six interlocking practices to restore persons, relationships, and political orders. A religious rationale, especially one that overlaps with Islamic values, can increase the legitimacy of U.S. p…
Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion
This essay takes on the broad question-what explains the political pursuits of religious actors?-by exploring two powerful influences on these pursuits. The first is differentiation, or the degree of autonomy between religious actors and states in their basic authority. The second is political theology, the set of ideas that religious actors hold about political authority and justice. Through global comparisons across religions, regions, and stat…
Has the Study of Global Politics Found Religion
The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientist…
Christianity and Democracy: The Catholic Wave
Catholicism played an important role in bringing about the third wave of democratization. This was due to a long historical rapprochement through which both church and the democratic state came to tolerate the other. The Church then exercised a direct influence upon democratization in many countriesâ strongly in Poland, Lithuania, Spain, the Philippines, and Brazil, but weakly in other places, like Argentina. The Church was most likely to exercis…
The Challenge of September 11 to Secularism in International Relations
The attacks of September 11, 2001, highlight the general absence of attention to religion in international scholarship. The absence is understandable, for it arises from the secularized nature of the authority structure of the international system, described here as the “Westphalian synthesis.” Over the past generation, though, the global rise of public religion has challenged several planks of the synthesis. The sharpest challenge is “radical Is…
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations
The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations
The Protestant Reformation was a crucial spring of modern international relations. Had it lever occurred, a system of sovereign states would not have arrived, at least not in the form or at he time that it did at the Peace of Westphalia. This is the counterfactual the author seeks to sustain. He first advances an elaborated but qualified defense of the conventional wisdom that Westphalia is the origin of modern international relations. He then ac…
Westphalia, Authority, and International Society
Usurping the Sovereignty of Sovereignty
Stephen Krasner'sSovereigntyand Michael Ross Fowler and Julie Marie Bunck'sLaw, Power, and the Sovereign Statetogether pose the deepest challenge yet to the assumption of sovereignty in international relations scholarship. Both claim not merely that state sovereignty is now compromised but also that it has always been severely truncated, violated, and curtailed. Both works contribute importantly to the field by amassing and cataloging formidable …
Religious Freedom and Peacebuilding: May I Introduce You Two
Religious freedom is a critical enabler of peace. Conversely, the lack of religious freedom is a demonstrable cause of violence. Religious freedom, then, ought to be incorporated into the US government's efforts to promote global democracy, the settlement of wars, the reduction of terrorism, and other goals related to peacebuilding. Non-governmental organizations and scholars engaged in peacebuilding ought to integrate religious freedom into thei…
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
The core proposition of this article is that reconciliation, both as a process and an end state, is a concept of justice. Its animating virtue is mercy and its goal is peace. These concepts are expressed most deeply in religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The idea of justice as right relationship is also found in the contemporary restorative justice movement, an approach to criminal justice that has emerged in the pas…
The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century Get access The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century by Immanuel Wallerstein. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 248 pp. $29.95. Daniel Philpott Daniel Philpott University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly…
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
Liberalism, Power, and Authority in International Relations: On the Origins of Colonial Independence and Internationally Sanctioned Intervention
(2001). Liberalism, Power, and Authority in International Relations: On the Origins of Colonial Independence and Internationally Sanctioned Intervention. Security Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 117-163
The possibilities of ideas: Review essay
Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change. Ithaca: Cornell Unviersity Press, 1993. 308 pp./$14.95 paper. Peter Katzenstein, ed. Culture and Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 560 pp./$49.50 doth; $17.50 paper
In Defense of Self-Determination
This article argues for a qualified right to self-determination, rooted in democratic theory.
The possibilities of ideas: Review essay
Judith Goldstein and Robert O. Keohane, eds. Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change. Ithaca: Cornell Unviersity Press, 1993. 308 pp./$14.95 paper. Peter Katzenstein, ed. Culture and Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 560 pp./$49.50 doth; $17.50 paper
Self‐Determination in Practice
This chapter defends the moral right of national communities to self‐determination, but examines the problems involved in institutionalizing such a right, and the problem of perverse consequences in exercising the right.
Westphalia, Authority, and International Society
The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century
Journal Article The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century Get access The End of the World as We Know it: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century by Immanuel Wallerstein. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1999. 248 pp. $29.95. Daniel Philpott Daniel Philpott University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly…
The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations
The Protestant Reformation was a crucial spring of modern international relations. Had it lever occurred, a system of sovereign states would not have arrived, at least not in the form or at he time that it did at the Peace of Westphalia. This is the counterfactual the author seeks to sustain. He first advances an elaborated but qualified defense of the conventional wisdom that Westphalia is the origin of modern international relations. He then ac…
Should self-determination be legalized
(2000). Should self‐determination be legalized? Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 12, The Democratic Experience and Political Violence, pp. 106-134
Liberalism, Power, and Authority in International Relations: On the Origins of Colonial Independence and Internationally Sanctioned Intervention
(2001). Liberalism, Power, and Authority in International Relations: On the Origins of Colonial Independence and Internationally Sanctioned Intervention. Security Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 117-163
Usurping the Sovereignty of Sovereignty
Stephen Krasner'sSovereigntyand Michael Ross Fowler and Julie Marie Bunck'sLaw, Power, and the Sovereign Statetogether pose the deepest challenge yet to the assumption of sovereignty in international relations scholarship. Both claim not merely that state sovereignty is now compromised but also that it has always been severely truncated, violated, and curtailed. Both works contribute importantly to the field by amassing and cataloging formidable …
The Challenge of September 11 to Secularism in International Relations
The attacks of September 11, 2001, highlight the general absence of attention to religion in international scholarship. The absence is understandable, for it arises from the secularized nature of the authority structure of the international system, described here as the “Westphalian synthesis.” Over the past generation, though, the global rise of public religion has challenged several planks of the synthesis. The sharpest challenge is “radical Is…
Faith-Based Diplomacy: An Ancient Idea Newly Emergent
Faith-based diplomacy is often practiced by non-state actors, NGO workers, religious leaders, and private citizens. Its religious foundation is adept at solving issues secular diplomacy cannot understand. One example is the reconciliation associated with the Institute for Reconciliation in Srinagar, Kashmir. Faith-based diplomacy makes it possible to hold conversations about these concepts in a safe environment.
Christianity and Democracy: The Catholic Wave
Catholicism played an important role in bringing about the third wave of democratization. This was due to a long historical rapprochement through which both church and the democratic state came to tolerate the other. The Church then exercised a direct influence upon democratization in many countriesâ strongly in Poland, Lithuania, Spain, the Philippines, and Brazil, but weakly in other places, like Argentina. The Church was most likely to exercis…
Religion in an Expanding Europe
With political controversies raging over issues such as the wearing of headscarves in schools and the mention of Christianity in the European Constitution, religious issues are of growing importance in European politics. In this volume, Byrnes and Katzenstein analyze the effect that enlargement to countries with different and stronger religious traditions may have on the EU as a whole, and in particular on its homogeneity and assumed secular natu…
Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion
This essay takes on the broad question-what explains the political pursuits of religious actors?-by exploring two powerful influences on these pursuits. The first is differentiation, or the degree of autonomy between religious actors and states in their basic authority. The second is political theology, the set of ideas that religious actors hold about political authority and justice. Through global comparisons across religions, regions, and stat…
In Search of the Twin Tolerations
U.S. foreign policy should encourage regimes to foster the twin tolerations, permitting full religious practice and limiting religion's control of government. Political theology and differentiation (the degree of separation between church and state)determine why religious actors take particular forms of politics. Religious terrorist groups are more likely to originate in integrationist regimes, where there is low differentiation, where religious …
Reconciliation and Iraq: Faith-Based Advice for the Next President
Iraqi factions are divided by ethnicity, religion, ideology, resentments, hatreds, and desires for revenge rooted in history. The U.S. and Iraq need a jus post bellum, an ethic for building peace in Iraq. This ethic—reconciliation—is a holistic project of six interlocking practices to restore persons, relationships, and political orders. A religious rationale, especially one that overlaps with Islamic values, can increase the legitimacy of U.S. p…
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
The core proposition of this article is that reconciliation, both as a process and an end state, is a concept of justice. Its animating virtue is mercy and its goal is peace. These concepts are expressed most deeply in religious traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The idea of justice as right relationship is also found in the contemporary restorative justice movement, an approach to criminal justice that has emerged in the pas…
Has the Study of Global Politics Found Religion
The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientist…
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations
Strategies of Peace
This volume comprises a discussion among a wide range of expert scholars and practitioners on what defines and distinguishes the concept of strategic peacebuilding. The authors respond reflexively to the failures of peacebuilding and constructively press forward an emergent paradigm shift that questions the assumptions of a state-centric and liberal approach to peace. Strategic peacebuilding, they argue, is an intentional approach to the complexi…
Sovereignty
Sovereignty has borne too many conflicting meanings over the centuries. Nevertheless, there arguably exists a definition of sovereignty that is flexible enough to accommodate much of the concept's historical diversity yet concrete enough to be meaningful: supreme authority within a territory. Authority—“the right to command and correlatively, the right to be obeyed,” in Robert Paul Wolff's definition—implies that sovereignty is a matter of right …
Response to “On Communitarian and Global Sources of Legitimacy”
Amitai Etzioni advances arguments about two forms of legitimacy, what I will call empirical legitimacy and substantive legitimacy. Empirical legitimacy is a matter of what people consider to be legitimate. It is assessed through the methods of social science—conducting surveys, for instance. Substantive legitimacy is a matter not of what people happen to think but of what is legitimate in the sense of being just or morally right. Etzioni's argume…
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
In the wake of massive injustice, how can justice be achieved and peace restored? This book offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. It challenges the approach to peacebuilding that dominates the United Nations, Western governments, and the human rights community. While this book shares their commitments to human rights and democracy, it argues that these values alone cannot redress the wounds caused by war, genocide, and dic…
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
Response to William Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin
We are honored to have God's Century reviewed in this forum by four distinguished scholars, three of whom – David Martin, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jeffrey Haynes – are among those social scientists
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