Mark R. Amstutz, a Providence contributing editor, is professor emeritus of political science at Wheaton College. He is the author of a number of works, including Evangelicals and American Foreign Policy; Just Immigration: American Policy in Christian Perspective; and International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics, now in its fifth edition.
Human Rights Watch’s legalist, retributive approach to human rights, which focuses on naming, shaming, and prosecuting, is inadequate without political reconciliation or state-building
Mark AmstutzJuly 30, 2025
Christians are called to love all persons, but this does not justify evading border regulations.
Mark AmstutzMay 13, 2025
Henry Kissinger has done it again with the publication of this outstanding book on leadership.
Mark AmstutzJanuary 26, 2023
“The Good American” is the story of how Robert Gersony, a high school dropout, affected governmental actions to reduce human misery and advance human rights. Because of his success in promoting humanitarian values, Kaplan calls him the US government’s “greatest humanitarian.”
Mark AmstutzJune 25, 2021
Matthew A. Sutton’s Double Crossed is an important book that offers a case study of how religious leaders contributed to national security in a challenging wartime environment.
Mark AmstutzJune 1, 2020
While it is still too early to ascertain the COVID-19 pandemic’s damage to our country and the world, it is already evident that the crisis will result in structural changes within and among countries.
Mark AmstutzMay 22, 2020
What is the role of moral values in the conduct of foreign relations? Although many answers have been given, three major traditions predominate: realism, idealism, and principled realism.
Mark AmstutzOctober 25, 2019
Little progress can be made toward improving the human condition of migrants without acknowledging the central role of the nation-state.
Mark AmstutzOctober 11, 2019
For the most part, church groups have been more interested in political advocacy than in seeking to illuminate how a biblical perspective might contribute to a more just immigration system.
Mark AmstutzOctober 9, 2019
Even though people may not rely on universal human rights rhetoric to guide their specific decisions, Ignatieff argues that the structure of global human rights has contributed indirectly to global solidarity by providing a foundation for people’s ordinary virtues.
Mark AmstutzSeptember 5, 2019