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person1959–

Peter Berkowitz

Disciplines:
political philosophy
law
israel
hoover

Summary

American legal and political scholar at Hoover Institution — former Director of Policy Planning at the State Department — author of Constitutional Conservatism and Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism.

Core Contribution

Creates the constitutional conservative argument that liberty requires moral foundations — Berkowitz's Constitutional Conservatism argues that conservatism's proper form is constitutional rather than reactionary, balancing individual liberty with the moral traditions that make liberty sustainable.

Notable Works & Achievements

Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism

Constitutional Conservatism

Israel and the Struggle Over the International Laws of War

Historical Influences

John Stuart Mill Alexis de Tocqueville

Intellectual Lineage

Yale Hebrew University Yale Law and Yale Political ScienceHoover Institution State Dept.

Contemporaries & Peers

Harvey Mansfield Robert Kagan

Minds Influenced

Conservative political philosophy

Intellectual Posterity

Constitutional Conservatism

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