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Bio
Luke M. Perez ('07) is a scholar of American Grand Strategy, the ethics of war, and religion and international politics. His work investigates strategic decision-making from the ancient world through the end of the Cold War. His current project shows how Cold War grand strategy played a critical role in the origin and development of international religious freedom. Some of his works include studies of just war ethics in the cyber-domain, the overlap between natural law ethics and strategic studies, and survey research on U.S. foreign policy.
Before joining the Chase Center, he served as assistant professor for civic education at Arizona State and as a postdoctoral fellow in constitutional democracy in the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri.
He completed his master's degree at Villanova University and his doctoral work at the University of Texas. While an undergraduate at The Ohio State University, he double majored in classics and political science. In addition to his academic training, he worked for the Jack Miller Center and is a 12-year veteran of the Air National Guard were he served as an avionics maintainer.
Areas of Expertise
- American grand strategy
- US foreign policy
- Ethics of war
- Religious freedom (domestic and international)
- International human rights