Paul D. Miller

Paul D. Miller is a professor in the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, an editor-at-large for Providence, a research fellow with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council.

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We’re All Going to Die

The past five years’ cascade of crises points toward even darker storms ahead unless America changes course

Rediscovering Common Sense Morality: Review of “Hopeful Realism”

Natural law has too long been neglected as a source of moral reasoning by evangelicals. A new book looks to change that.

Paul Miller Christianity & National Security 2024

Paul Miller, professor at Georgetown University, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and editor-at-large for Providence, gave a lecture at…

Justice and Strategy in Just Statecraft

The term “just statecraft” is a novel but needed term that acknowledges the just war framework’s usefulness, not just for foreign policy but all areas of grand strategy

Paul Miller Christianity & National Security 2023

During Providence‘s Christianity & National Security Conference in 2023, Paul Miller gave a lecture discussing Afghanistan, Christian realism, and secular…

Two Cheers for McNerney’s Just War Resolution

American thinking has often been shaped by Just War Theory, if implicitly. Last year, Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-CA) introduced HR 1009 that clarifies and makes explicit the American commitment to the just war tradition. 

Paul Miller Christianity & National Security Conference 2022

During Providence‘s Christianity & National Security Conference in 2022, Paul Miller discusses American leadership, Christian realism, and the just war…

Pope Francis on Just War and Ukraine

Does the Catholic Church still believe in the doctrine of just war? Last week, Pope Francis told Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, “At one time we also spoke in our churches of holy war or just war. Today we cannot speak like that.”

Israel vs. Hamas: A Just War Analysis - Palestine
Israel vs. Hamas: A Just War Analysis

Just war should aim at a better peace. It is unclear how a Palestinian war against Israel would do that in Palestine, Israel, or the region.

Trump vs. the United States - US Capitol Riot
Trump vs. the United States

The lines have indeed been drawn, and I welcome you to join me in choosing the side of the Constitution, the rule of law, and the ideals of American democracy.