Paul O. Carrese Professor of Political Science, United States Air Force Academy 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6L116 USAF Academy, CO  80840 (719) 333-3563

Education:

• Ph.D., Boston College
• M. Stud., M.A. Oxon., Oxford University, Pembroke College
• B.A., Middlebury College

Courses Taught:

• AHG 622 Religion in American History and Government (Syllabus)

Books:

• The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• John Marshall's The Life of George Washington: Special Edition for Schools, co-editor, with Robert Faulkner (Liberty Fund, 2000).

Recent Publications:

• "American Power and the Legacy of Washington: Enduring Principles for Foreign and Security Policy," in Bolt et. al., eds., American Defense Policy, 8th ed (Johns Hopkins, 2005).
• "The Machiavellian Spirit of Montesquieu's Liberal Republic," Rahe, ed., Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• "Montesquieu's Complex Natural Right and Moderate Liberalism: The Roots of American Moderation," Polity 36, no. 2 (January 2004) 227-50.
• "Republicanism: An Overview," in Kors, ed., The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, (Oxford University Press, 2003), 4 vols., 3:422-25.
• "Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: The Political Thought of George Washington," in Frost and Sikkenga, eds., History of American Political Thought, (Lexington Press, 2003), 95-113.