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Assessing the Viability of the Middle East Strategic Alliance to Counter Iranian Influence in the Post-Islamic State Middle East

| January 7, 2020 | Young Scholars

Assessing the Viability of the Middle East Strategic Alliance to Counter Iranian Influence in the Post-Islamic State Middle East
Jonathan Deemer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. He attended Union College and majored in international relations and business administration. I am twenty two years old. This means that for me, and the millions of Americans in my generation, we...
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Jonathan Deemer
Jonathan Deemer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar for the Intiative on Faith and Public Life. He majored in international relations and business administration at Union College.

Coalition of the Developing: Can regional trade agreements on the African continent lead to development?

| January 7, 2020 | Young Scholars

Coalition of the Developing: Can regional trade agreements on the African continent lead to development?
Mary Katherine Lederer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. She attended the University of Notre Dame and majored in economics and political science. Still struggling to attain stable political regimes, sound economic institutions, and greater...
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Mary Katherine Lederer
Mary Katherine Lederer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life and is a senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in economics and political science.

The Illiberal Cake We’re Baking

| January 7, 2020 | Young Scholars

The Illiberal Cake We’re Baking
Nicholas Marr was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. He is currently a senior at the University of Notre Dame, majoring in political science and history. In May, the U.S. House passed H.R. 5, the “Equality Act,” on a near–party-line vote. It would...
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Nicholas Marr
Nicholas Marr was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life and is a senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in political science and history.

Refugee Protection to Victims of Generalized Violence: Mexico’s Response to Central American Asylum Seekers

| January 7, 2020 | Young Scholars

Refugee Protection to Victims of Generalized Violence: Mexico’s Response to Central American Asylum Seekers
Emilio Rodriguez was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. He attended Trinity Western University and majored in international relations. Protection to refugees has a well-established legal tradition. But almost everywhere in the Western world, these...
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Emilio Rodriguez
Emilio Rodriguez was a 2018-2018 Young Scholar for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life and is a senior at Trinity Western University majoring in international relations.

China Holds No Cards

| December 11, 2019 | Blog Contributor

China Holds No Cards
It was 2 a.m., and my father and I had finally settled down for our flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Bleary-eyed, I was about to drift off to sleep, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I hadn’t realized it, but there was a Chinese teenager more or less my age sitting...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

How Should the Church Engage in a Consumer Society?

| December 9, 2019 | Blog Contributor

How Should the Church Engage in a Consumer Society?
“To be prophetic is to host a world other than the one that is in front of us.” Christians, as theologian Walter Brueggemann so eloquently wrote, ought to be set apart, practicing faith and life in a way that is unique and attractive to those outside of the body of...
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Grant Dunnavan
Grant Dunnavan was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Wheaton College where he studies international relations.