Cecelia Lynch
Cecelia Lynch is associate professor of political science and international studies, as well as director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS) at the University of California, Irvine. She works at the intersection of international relations theory, social movements and world politics, religion, ethics, peace and security. She is the co-author of Strategies for Research in Constructivist IR, with Audie Klotz (M. E. Sharpe, Feb. 2007); Beyond Appeasement: Interpreting Interwar Peace Movements in World Politics (Cornell University Press, 1999); and co-editor, with Michael Loriaux, of Law and Moral Action in World Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2000). Lynch is a member of the SSRC working group on religion, secularism, and international affairs.
Posts by Cecelia Lynch:
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The recent visit of Benedict XVI to the U.S. demonstrates once again the uncanny ability of the most influential popes to embody the prospects as well as highlight the contradictions of the Roman Catholic Church in the world. The Pope’s visit conversely afforded an opportunity for U.S. Catholics, other people of faith, and the media to project onto Benedict their hopes and fears regarding the Church’s global role as a moral leader in public life. [...]
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