Non-Resident Scholar
International Relations, Law and Religion
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 Davis Brown is a researcher in the areas international relations, international law, and religion. He has a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia and an LL.M. in international law from George Washington University. He is the author of The Sword, the Cross, and the Eagle: The American Just War Tradition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and co-editor of The Just War Tradition: Applying Old Ethics to New Problems (Routledge, 2015), with Henrik Syse. Dr. Brown is the co-principal investigator of the Religious Characteristics of States (RCS) data project with Patrick James, and constructed the RCS demographics dataset released in 2015. His current research focuses on religious war ethics and quantifying a new measurement of religion and state, called Government Religious Preference. Dr. Brown is a former Air Force JAG and currently lives in North Carolina.