Eric D. Patterson, Ph.D. is an American political scientist whose work focuses on international relations, the ethics of war, and the intersection of religion and national security. His advanced degrees are from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth. He serves as Dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs, where he previously worked full-time. His government experience includes service as an Air National Guard officer, the White House Fellowship, and time as a William C. Foster Fellow working at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. His academic articles have appeared in Public Integrity, Journal of Military Ethics, Survival, International Studies Perspectives, International Journal of Religious Freedom, Democracy and Society, Journal of Human Security, International Journal of Applied Philosophy, International Politics, Foreign Policy Journal, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Political Science, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Security Studies.
Books
• The Reagan Manifesto: “A Time For Choosing” and Its Influence. Co-edited with Jeffry Morrison (2016).
• Ashgate Companion on Military Ethics. Co-edited with James Turner Johnson (2015).
• Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond (2014).
• Ethics Beyond War’s End (2012).
• Ending Wars Well: Just War Theory in Post-Conflict (2012).
• Politics in a Religious World: Building a Religiously Informed US Foreign Policy (2011).
• Debating the War of Ideas. Co-edited with John Gallagher (2009).
• Christianity and Power Politics Today: Christian Realism and Contemporary Political Dilemmas (2008).
• Just War Thinking: Morality & Pragmatism in the Struggle Against 21st Century Conflicts (2007).
• Latin America’s New-Reformation: Religion’s Influence on Politics (2005).
• The Christian Realists: Reassessing the Contribution of Niebuhr and His Contemporaries (2004).