Peter Berkowitz (born 1959) is an American
political scientist
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, former
law
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professor
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, and
United States Department of State
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employee, most recently serving as the
Director of Policy Planning at the
United States Department of State
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. He currently serves as the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the
Hoover Institution
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of
Stanford University.
Education
Berkowitz earned a
B.A.
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in
English literature from
Swarthmore College in 1981, followed by an
M.A.
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in
philosophy from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then earned a
J.D. from
Yale Law School
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and a
Ph.D.
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in political science from the
Yale University
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Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Career
Berkowitz taught constitutional law and jurisprudence at the
Antonin Scalia Law School from 1999 to 2007, and political philosophy in the Department of Government at
Harvard University
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from 1990 to 1999.
In 1997, after
Harvard University
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president
Neil Rudenstine rejected the Department of Government's recommendation and denied his tenure, Berkowitz challenged the process by which Rudenstine reached his decision through Harvard's internal grievance procedure. Eventually, in 2000, he brought a lawsuit for breach of contract against Harvard alleging flaws in both the tenure review process and the grievance procedure.
In 2003, the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed his case.
He is co-founder 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
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. He sits on the board of directors of the
National Association of Scholars. He has defended
George W. Bush and
neoconservative
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policies. Berkowitz formerly served on the foreign policy advisory team in the
Rudy Giuliani 2008 presidential campaign. Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube senior fellow at the
Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Trump administration
On January 1, 2019, Berkowitz became the
Director of Policy Planning in the
Trump Administration
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.
In October 2020 he tested positive for
coronavirus following meetings with senior officials at
10 Downing Street and the
Foreign Office in London, and with officials in Budapest and Paris. Some U.S. State Department officials were angered by Berkowitz's trip, arguing that it was unnecessary.
Bibliography
* ''Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist'' (Harvard University Press,
1995
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).
* ''Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism'' (Princeton University Press,
1999).
* ''Never a Matter of Indifference: Sustaining Virtue in a Free Republic'', editor (Hoover Institution Press,
2003).
* ''Varieties of Conservatism in America'', 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).
* ''Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation'', (Hoover Institution Press, 2013).
Berkowitz has co-edited the ''Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society'' book series with
Tod Lindberg since 2005.
References
External links
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1959 births
American political scientists
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
Harvard University faculty
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Hoover Institution people
Jewish American writers
Living people
Swarthmore College alumni
Yale Law School alumni