Walter Russell Mead Lecture: “Christian Influences on Foreign Policy”

By Walter Russell Mead on October 19, 2017

The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference.

Walter Russell Mead discusses the influence of Christian thought on foreign policy. He argues that foreign policy is not necessarily a religious activity, but that foreign policy, particularly American foreign policy, is deeply and importantly connected to Christianity and Christian eschatology.

Christianity and National Security Conference 2017

Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College, and the Distinguished Scholar in American Strategy and Statesmanship for the Hudson Institute. He previously served as the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy for the Council on Foreign Relations. His works include God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2008), and he is the Global Views Columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

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