Michael D. Driessen is the inaugural Director of the
MA program in International Affairs at John Cabot University and Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He also holds a research affiliation with Cambridge University’s von Hügel Institute. Driessen’s books include
The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2023) and
Religion and Democratization (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published scholarly articles in
Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion,
Constellations and
Democratization and essays in
America Magazine and
Commonweal.
Michael also serves as an advisor for the
Adyan Foundation in Lebanon and recently co-edited
Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship:
Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean, published in collaboration with the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), the Adyan Foundation and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also directs the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics, an annual writing workshop and policy dialogue supported by a consortium of institutions and scholars working at the crossroads of religion and international relations.
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