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Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy
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Phone: +1-240-912-5697
E-mail: tshah@cfr.org
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Washington, DC
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Award-winning political scientist and expert on religion and world politics. Current research focuses on religion and foreign policy.
Expertise:Religion and foreign policy; religion and the theory and practice of democracy; global democratization; Third World religion and politics; South Asia; religion and domestic politics.
Experience:Senior Research Scholar, Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University (2007-present); Principal Researcher, Religion in Global Politics Project, Harvard University (2001-present); Research Director, Project on Evangelicalism and Democracy in the Global South (1999-present); Senior Fellow, Religion and World Affairs, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life (2004-2007); Director of South Asian Studies, Ethics and Public Policy Center (2003-2004); Research Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center (1999-2003); Civitas Fellow in Faith and Public Affairs, The Brookings Institution (1998-1999).
Languages:French (familiar)
Honors:The American Political Science Association's Aaron Wildavsky Award for Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics, "A Horror of Discord: Radical Pluralism and the Invention of Liberalism in the Early Writings of Hugo Grotius," Harvard Government Department, 2002; the American Political Science Association's Award for Best Paper in Religion and Politics, "Making the World Safe for Liberalism: The Moralization of
Christianity and the Roots of Liberal Public Reason in Hugo Grotius (1583-1645)."
"Why God is Winning," Foreign Policy, July/August 2006 (with Monica Toft); "The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelicals and Democracy in the 'Global South'," SAIS Review of International Affairs, September 2004; "The Pioneering Protestants," Journal of Democracy, April 2004 (with Robert Woodberry); "Faith, Freedom, and Federation: The Role of Religious Ideas and Institutions in European Political Convergence," Timothy Byrnes and Peter Katzenstein, eds., Religion in an Expanding Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006) (with Daniel Philpott).
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
April 11, 2008
Interview
Timothy Samuel Shah, a scholar on religious issues, says that when Pope Benedict XVI makes his first visit to the United States as pope, it will give Americans their first chance to hear firsthand his views on Iraq, the environment, and immigration.
See more in Western Europe, Religion
June 21, 2007
Audio
Listen to Timothy Samuel Shah, the Council's adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy, discuss the role of religion in promoting democracy as part of the Council's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
See more in Democracy Promotion, Religion
May 8, 2007
Audio
Listen to Father Mathew Kukah, vicar general of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, and John N. Paden, Clarence J. Robinson professor of international studies at George Mason University, discuss recent developments in the Islamic and Christian communities in Nigeria.
May 8, 2007
Video
Watch Father Mathew Kukah, vicar general of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, and John N. Paden, Clarence J. Robinson professor of international studies at George Mason University, discuss recent developments in the Islamic and Christian communities in Nigeria.
May 8, 2007
Transcript
This panel discussed the current religious dynamics between the two leading faith communities in Nigeria, Christianity and Islam.
In The Closing of the American Border, Edward Alden goes behind the scenes to tell the story of the Bush administration’s struggle to balance security and openness in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
Complete list of CFR Books.
This report lays out a thoughtful agenda for U.S. policy toward the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that what happens there should matter to the United States--for humanitarian reasons as well as economic and strategic ones.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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