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Robert Joustra

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Robert Joustra

Robert Joustra is assistant professor of international studies at Redeemer University College.

He is editor, with Senior Fellow Jonathan Chaplin, of God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy (Baylor University Press, 2010). His articles and reviews appear in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, the Review of Faith and International Affairs, Books & Culture, and more. Follow him on Twitter @rjoustra.

Cardus Blog Articles

Apr 26, 2013
Blog
Reasonable Accommodation in Reverse
Apr 25, 2013
Blog
Three Cheers for Motion 382
Apr 19, 2013
Blog
Gaming Out the Ambiguous Morality of Apocalypse
Apr 12, 2013
Blog
All Hail the Twitterati
Apr 5, 2013
Blog
Here Come the Wonksters
Feb 18, 2013
Blog
I, for one, Welcome our new Ambassador of Religious Freedom
Feb 15, 2013
Blog
Are Missionaries the Henchmen of Empire?
Feb 8, 2013
Blog
Why I am For an Islamic Law School
Feb 1, 2013
Blog
The Peril of Christian Humanitarianism
Jan 11, 2013
Blog
Needed for Rebooting Conservative Aid Policy: Less Fox, More Foxes
Jan 3, 2013
Blog
Pressing Upon the Imagination of the Cynical
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Dec 13, 2012
Blog
Bring on that Foreign Policy Review
Dec 7, 2012
Blog
Stealth Fighter Fever
Nov 21, 2012
Blog
Wishing for a Secret Agenda
Nov 2, 2012
Blog
The Devil's Advocate
Oct 26, 2012
Blog
The Kung Fu Panda Problem: Gangnam Style goes Global
Oct 15, 2012
Blog
Religious Freedom and Social Architecture
Sep 28, 2012
Blog
Naughty News Makers
Sep 20, 2012
Blog
Millennials Will Save Cities, and Destroy the Country
Sep 6, 2012
Blog
Culture without War still needs Parties
Aug 3, 2012
Blog
Alone in the Void
Jul 27, 2012
Blog
The Caspian Sea Monster
Jul 20, 2012
Blog
The Leaning Tower of Ivory
Jul 12, 2012
Blog
The Chickens are Restless
Jun 28, 2012
Blog
The Third Option
Jun 15, 2012
Blog
A Revenant Renaissance
Jun 8, 2012
Blog
Superheroes: the Saints of the State
May 11, 2012
Blog
Time to Think
May 3, 2012
Blog
Wiebo's War
Apr 19, 2012
Blog
The Tyranny of Extroverts
Apr 11, 2012
Blog
Our Dystopian Rut
Mar 30, 2012
Blog
Does Canada have Social Conservatives?
Mar 23, 2012
Blog
The Games of Yanks and Canucks
Mar 16, 2012
Blog
Grab your Bag. It's On.
Mar 2, 2012
Blog
Christian Labour as Competitive Advantage
Feb 17, 2012
Blog
Vatican Foreign Policy Exposes Fault Lines Without, but also Within
Feb 10, 2012
Blog
The Vanity of Foxes
Feb 3, 2012
Blog
Don't let the smallness confuse you
Jan 25, 2012
Blog
Union Metaphors
Jan 19, 2012
Blog
The Instant Super Cities of Oil Empires
Jan 10, 2012
Blog
Have think tanks stopped thinking?
Jan 6, 2012
Blog
There can be no peace, after Westphalia
Dec 9, 2011
Blog
Another Evangelical Conspiracy, The Office of Religious Freedom
Nov 25, 2011
Blog
Foreign Affairs, Version 2.0?
Nov 18, 2011
Blog
The Globalization of Graffiti
Nov 9, 2011
Blog
Is all foreign policy missiology?
Nov 3, 2011
Blog
Unlikely Disciples and Damned Lies
Oct 28, 2011
Blog
How to Tax the Rich
Oct 21, 2011
Blog
Some corrections from last week
Oct 14, 2011
Blog
Occupy because we can: keep this asinine activism out of Canada
Oct 7, 2011
Blog
A global spring with no happy ending in sight
Sep 30, 2011
Blog
Why don't creative young writers care if they get paid?—and why they should
Sep 26, 2011
Blog
Why I Am For Justice
Sep 23, 2011
Blog
Defending Idealism in the Legacy of 9/11
Sep 16, 2011
Blog
Big Religion, Big State: Reflections on Downsizing
Sep 8, 2011
Blog
Raised Right but Tangled She Remains
Sep 2, 2011
Blog
War gaming
Aug 26, 2011
Blog
Hope is not a political virtue
Aug 19, 2011
Blog
The Old Testament is Homophobic, Patriarchal, and Violent: Now What?
Aug 12, 2011
Blog
Learning to love the long revision
Jul 29, 2011
Blog
Budget Deficit, the Debt Ceiling, and the Fifth Horseman
Jul 22, 2011
Blog
A Eulogy for Atlantis
Jul 8, 2011
Blog
Sim City and its Discontents
Jun 17, 2011
Blog
Baptizing the Imagination
Jun 10, 2011
Blog
Watching the Watchers: Religious Freedom for Whom?
Jun 1, 2011
Blog
Intern Nation
May 27, 2011
Blog
The BRIC Shift: Decadence and Decline or "The Rise of the Rest"?
May 20, 2011
Blog
Religion? In Canadian Politics? Please. I'm eating breakfast.
May 13, 2011
Blog
'Hiding in plain sight'
May 6, 2011
Blog
Is non-partisanship real piety?
Apr 29, 2011
Blog
The Great Divorce: Superman and American Foreign Policy
Sep 8, 2010
Blog
Can Faith-Based Relief Agencies do Foreign Aid?
Sep 6, 2010
Blog
The First Virtue
May 18, 2010
Blog
Is Theory a Hoax?
Apr 21, 2010
Blog
Falling in Love (with Institutions)
Apr 14, 2010
Blog
A Week of Caritas in Veritate
Feb 24, 2010
Blog
Love Languages are not your Problem
Jan 12, 2010
Blog
Vive le résistance?
Jan 6, 2010
Blog
Where did the Foreign Service Go?
Feb 25, 2009
Blog
Who Hurts the Most in Recessions?
Feb 24, 2009
Blog
There Will be Blood
Feb 20, 2009
Blog
Blind Spot
Feb 18, 2009
Blog
Empathy and the Life of the Mind
Feb 4, 2009
Blog
The Academic Underclass
Feb 4, 2009
Blog
The Cost of Talent
Jan 24, 2009
Blog
York U vs CUPE: What is the Public Responsibility of the Academy?
Jan 16, 2009
Blog
The Psychology of Economics
Jan 2, 2009
Blog
One Generation to the Next
Nov 18, 2008
Blog
The End of Wall Street
Nov 18, 2008
Blog
An Economy that Doesn't Deserve Bailing Out?
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Comment

Oct 12, 2012
Reviews & Opinions
The Monsters under our Political Beds
Sep 7, 2012
Reviews & Opinions
The Absurdity of Reconciliation
Jan 27, 2012
Reviews & Opinions
One Story to Rule Them All: Is there such a thing as a monoculture?
Jul 15, 2011
Reviews & Opinions
The Power of Pottermania
May 30, 2011
Feature Essays
I Tweeted Hugo Chavez
Mar 25, 2011
Reviews & Opinions
The Embarrassment of Power: Does Constantine Need Defending?
Nov 19, 2010
Symposium
"Editing" the Web
Oct 22, 2010
Symposium
Social Justice
Sep 24, 2010
Reviews & Opinions
The Ecumenical Social Justice Ship: Full Steam Ahead or Teetering Titanic?
Jun 1, 2010
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Seize the Quarterlife Crisis
May 28, 2010
Reviews & Opinions
Here there be Dragons
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Apr 1, 2010
Reviews & Opinions
Saving the world takes more than an English degree
Mar 1, 2010
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Doing Public Life and (Still) Believing Stuff
Nov 6, 2009
Reviews & Opinions
Fair Trade and Dead Aid: "My Voice Can't Compete with an Electric Guitar"
Mar 13, 2009
Reviews & Opinions
Recovering Christian Realism in "Terrifying Times"
Mar 1, 2009
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Knee-deep in Hot Fuzz
Jun 20, 2008
Reviews & Opinions
"Globalization and Grace": public theology bridging global disparity
Jun 1, 2008
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Giving ideas legs
Feb 15, 2008
Reviews & Opinions
The greatest invention in the history of mankind
Feb 15, 2008
Reviews & Opinions
The line between good and evil
Dec 1, 2005
Symposium
What is to be done . . . toward a neocalvinist agenda?
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Convivium

Nov 1, 2012
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Meet the New Boss
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Cardus Policy in Public

Mar 29, 2012
Headline Feature
The Long, Slow, Nail-Biting Crawl to Harper's Federalism
Nov 24, 2011
Editorial
The Struggle for Canada's Soul
Nov 24, 2011
Book Review
Century for Sale
Oct 27, 2011
Editorial
Go Local, Young Man
Jun 8, 2011
Editorial
Is it Time for the Ideas Yet?
May 3, 2011
Feature
Fights We'll Wish We Had: a Four Sectors Analysis of the 2011 Canadian Federal Election
Dec 22, 2010
Editorial
When I Train I am Free
Oct 21, 2010
Editorial
Is Bigger Better? Building a Thick Society
Mar 10, 2010
Feature
Cardus' 2010 Federal Budget Analysis: Long-Term Talk Masks Short-Term Thinking
Mar 10, 2010
Response
The Party Line: Responses From Canada's Major Political Parties
Nov 20, 2009
Recommendation
Think Different
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Apr 1, 2009
Book Review
World of Faith and Freedom by Thomas F. Farr
Jan 1, 2009
Feature
What Others are Saying: The Think Tank Index
Jan 1, 2009
Feature
What Others Are Saying: "Snap Shots" From Advocates and Associations
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Columns & Opinions

Sep 27, 2012
A Jerusalem Lost
Sep 14, 2012
Where's our ambassador for religious freedom?
Sep 14, 2012
Defining justice in Libya and Egypt
Apr 2, 2012
The Return of the Dragons
Feb 28, 2012
How the Berenstain Bears enhance the Ten Commandments
Feb 22, 2012
Beware the secular atheocracy
Jan 29, 2012
Seeking justice for Syria
Jan 27, 2012
Brinkmanship with the Desperate: Now is not the time to attack Iran
Sep 28, 2011
Monitoring religious freedom is tricky work
Aug 30, 2011
Century for Sale, Buyer Beware
Aug 14, 2011
British rioting met with justice and mercy
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Jul 31, 2011
Space shuttles a reminder of America's more ambitious times
Jun 6, 2011
Cardus June 2011 Budget Analysis: Dissent on Deck
May 31, 2011
Canada's coming enigma -religion and politics
Apr 27, 2011
Making Peace at the Dinner Table
Apr 5, 2011
Being Good Samaritans in Libya and Ivory Coast
Apr 1, 2011
The F-35: Not whether to buy it, but why
Mar 22, 2011
Cardus Budget Analysis: Good News for Economy, Ho-Hum for Society
Mar 15, 2011
Let the little children come to me: a review of Jeffrey Overstreet's The Ale Boy's Feast
Feb 11, 2011
What considerations should shape a Christian approach to international relations?
Nov 29, 2010
Not their parents' conservatism
Mar 4, 2010
Cardus' 2010 Federal Budget Analysis: Long-Term Talk Masks Short-Term Thinking
Jan 15, 2010
Stained Glass Urbanism
Oct 21, 2008
Religion and Narratives of International Relations
Oct 1, 2007
The Urban Paradox
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Cardus Audio

Jun 8, 2009
Conversations: Geoff Ryan, "The Recession's Urban Impact"
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Sep 1, 2010

Guelph Mercury covers the new Cardus book, Think Different
Feb 11, 2010

New Research on the Religious Roots of Globalization
Sep 25, 2009

Summit Urged for Toronto Church and Civic Leaders: Homelessness, planning and Sunday parking tickets among issues
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