"The Middle East's Four Conflicts and the Challenge of Christian Statecraft"
Date: March 17, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Description
Professor William Inboden will deliver Wheaton College's spring Tiffany Memorial Lecture on Foreign Affairs titled "The Middle East's Four Conflicts and the Challenge of Christian Statecraft." The lecture is sponsored by the Politics and International Relations Department of Wheaton College. Dr. Inboden will discuss the overlapping conflicts currently at work in the Middle East and talk about what a Christian perspective on policies toward that region should be. Dr. Inboden is executive director of the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and is a distinguished scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Inboden is the author of "Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment" (Cambridge University Press, 2008).