
Jonathan Laurence
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Director, Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy @BostonCollege • Author, Coping with Defeat • amzn.to/3fvDYTH • Board @Resetdoc • Member @CFR_org
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Save the date for our upcoming book discussion event - Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State by Jonathan Laurence


.John Cabot University welcomes PUP author Jonathan Laurence to discuss his latest book, Coping with Defeat, tomorrow (June 8) at 6 PM CEST, as part of their Rome Summer Seminars on Religion & Global Politics: hubs.ly/Q01SDzzd0 University of Notre Dame Pontificia Università Gregoriana Adyan Foundation


Rome friends! Come and join us tomorrow and friday for these two great events at John Cabot University: Thursday, June 8th, 6-7:30pm "Coping with Defeat" Jonathan Laurence and Friday, June 9th, 5-7pm "Women, Religious Leadership and Global Politics in Rome"



Rich exchange tonight on Islam and Catholicism and Modernity Jonathan Laurence @ Elena Dini, Ibrahim Al-Marashi and @ Debora Tonelli @ Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics




Three authors of recent books on the past and future of the Islamic world enjoying the Berlin Summer: Ahmet T. Kuru Jonathan Laurence and yours truly.



A Vatican City-style arrangement for Al-Aqsa could stave off Tehran’s aggression, writes Jonathan Laurence on.wsj.com/3TiSdPR

The Gaza war is a reminder that the Europeans left behind an unstable status quo a century ago. The dynamic might be resolved with a Vatican City-style solution for Al Aqsa, writes Jonathan Laurence on.wsj.com/3uUfzBS


Let me add that scholar Jonathan Laurence has an important book arguing that the #Caliphate could have helpfully survived. I would differ on some nuances, but his evaluations of the trajectories of #Islam and #Catholicism in the modern era is remarkable: amazon.com/Coping-Defeat-…

Preventing an Iranian Caliphate ➡️ In a The Wall Street Journal op-ed, Professor of Political Science Jonathan Laurence writes that a Vatican City-style arrangement for Al-Aqsa could stave off Tehran’s aggression. brnw.ch/JLaurence_WSJ



To prepare for tomorrow's Heirs' Property conference Boston College watch Thomas Mitchell and Everett fly discuss "Reclaiming Land, Preserving Place" at last week's Clough Center spring symposium, here: bc.edu/content/bc-web… youtube.com/live/ViBmHiwP5…