Peter Berkowitz

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Peter Berkowitz is an American political scientist, presently holding a fellowship at the Hoover Institution and an associate professorship of law at George Mason University School of Law. He holds a J.D. and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University; an M.A. in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College.

Berkowitz became a minor academic celebrity when he unsuccessfully sued Harvard University after he was denied tenure in the Harvard department of Government.^[1] He is cofounder and director of the Israel Program on Constitutional Government and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He has established himself as a strong defender of George W. Bush and neo-conservative policies.^[2] He has also written articles on liberalism and conservatism in the United States and on atheism.^[3]

Berkowitz formerly served on the foreign policy advisory team of Republican Party presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.^[4]

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Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Princeton University Press, 1999).
Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995).
Varieties of Conservatism in American, editor (Hoover Institution Press, 2004).
Varieties of Progressivism in America, editor (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)
The Future of American Intelligence, editor (Hoover Institution Press, 2005)
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases, editor (Hoover Institution Press, 2005).
Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic, editor (Hoover Institution Press, 2003).