Venezuelans at home and abroad are celebrating the removal of the dictator Nicolas Maduro. But what does international law say about the United States’ actions? Scholars are divided – Dan Philpott weighs in.

Guest Info

Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University and specializes in religion and global politics, focusing on religious freedom, reconciliation, the political behavior of religious actors, and Christian political theology. His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty (Princeton, 2001), God’s Century: Resurgent Religion in Global Politics (Norton, 2011, coauthored with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah), Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012) and Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World (Oxford, 2019). Currently he is writing a book that sets forth a political theology based on a Christian concept of justice. He has promoted reconciliation as an activist in Kashmir, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and the Catholic Church with respect to clerical sex abuse. He is married to Diana Philpott and has three children, Angela, James, and Peter.

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