Peter Berkowitz

Peter Berkowitz (born 1959) is an American political scientist, former law professor, and United States Department of State employee, currently serving as the Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State.[1]

Peter Berkowitz
Director of Policy Planning
Assumed office
August 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byKiron Skinner
Personal details
Born1959 (age 60–61)
Political partyRepublican
EducationSwarthmore College (BA)
Hebrew University (MA)
Yale University (JD, PhD)

Education

Berkowitz earned a B.A. in English literature from Swarthmore College in 1981, followed by an M.A. in philosophy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then earned a J.D. and Ph.D. in political science, both from Yale University.[2]

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 from 1990 to 1999.[3]

In 1997, after Harvard University 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.[4] 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.[5] In 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed his case.[5]

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.[6] He sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Scholars.[7] He has defended George W. Bush and neoconservative policies.[8] He has also written articles on liberalism and conservatism in the United States and on atheism.[9][10]

In 2003 he penned an article in The Weekly Standard, defending philosopher Leo Strauss from detractors who claimed that Strauss taught an elite group who served in high positions in the Bush administration to secretly manipulate policy for a neoconservative agenda.[11]

Berkowitz formerly served on the foreign policy advisory team in the Rudy Giuliani 2008 presidential campaign.[12]

Berkowitz is known for his critique of American higher education, particularly of campus culture and university governance.[13]

On January 1, 2019, Berkowitz became the Director of Policy Planning in the Trump Administration.[14]

Bibliography
  • Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist (Harvard University Press, 1995).
  • 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
  1. "Peter Berkowitz curriculum vitae" (PDF). George Mason University School of Law. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 4, 2012. Retrieved November 13, 2011. Berkowitz attended Swarthmore from 1977 to 1981, according to his LinkedIn.
  2. Hoover Institution – Fellows – Peter Berkowitz Archived 2009-12-28 at the Wayback Machine
  3. http://peterberkowitz.com/bio.htm
  4. "Berkowitz Appeals Tenure Denial". Harvard Magazine. March–April 1999. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  5. "Case Dismissed". Harvard Magazine. September–October 2003. Archived from the original on 2007-10-05. Retrieved 2010-01-08.
  6. About EPPC – Policy Advisory Board Archived 2010-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Staff & Boards - NAS
  8. "The Insanity of Bush Hatred By Peter Berkowitz". Opinion Journal. 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
  9. "Peter Berkowitz official home page". Retrieved 2007-11-15.
  10. http://www.peterberkowitz.com/ipcg.htm
  11. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/717acusr.asp?pg=1
  12. "Candidate Giuliani Names Berkowitz to Foreign Policy Team". Archived from the original on 2007-11-16. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
  13. http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/peter-berkowitz/
  14. "Peter Berkowitz". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
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