Professor John Wilsey teaches church history at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of three books, One Nation Under God: An Evangelical Critique of Christian America, American Exceptionalism and Civil Religion: Reassessing the History of an Idea and God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles which is the subject of our conversation.

Professor Molly Worthen of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researches and teaches American religious history. She is the author of two books, Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism and The Man on Whom Nothing was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill. 

In the podcast we discuss the life of the subject of Professor Worthen's biography, Charles Hill. 

Important Links:

The Death of a Grand Strategist

The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill

Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order

Apostles of Reason: The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism

Professor Mark Bell teaches researches international relations at the University of Minnesota focusing on nuclear weapons, American and British foreign policy and international relations theory.

He was previously a graduate student at MIT where he got his PhD. And before that received a master's in public policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard as a Frank Knox fellow, prior to that, graduated with a first class degree in politics, philosophy and economics from St. Anne's College, Oxford.

He has a new book out titled Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear Armed States Behave from Cornell University Press which can downloaded for free due to an open access grant from the University of Minnesota here: https://www.amazon.com/Nuclear-Reactions-Nuclear-Armed-Cornell-Security-ebook/dp/B08LMCS8KK/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1620501196&sr=8-1

Today on the podcast we have Wenchi Yu. Wenchi Yu is a fellow at the Ash Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard. Before that she was Head of Corporate Engagement for Goldman Sachs in Asia. Prior to that she worked at the US Department of State in the Secretary of State's Office, as a senior adviser on global women’s issues.

IR Talk is a podcast about international relations theory and practice. Elan Kluger will be interviewing guests involved with both the theory and the practice of international relations. The show will launch the first week in May, 2021.