The Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society
	Joshua Cherniss Fellow & Director of the Program on Ethics in Foreign Policy http://j3.blogspot.com/ joshua.cherniss@foreignpolicysociety.org
Interests	The history of modern political and social thought; international relations and ethics; international humanitarian and criminal law; twentieth century intellectual and political history.
Current Projects	The intellectual development and political, social and ethical thought of Isaiah Berlin; post-Second World War political and social thought; the relationship between means and ends in political morality; moral ideas and policy in post-authoritarian and post-genocidal societies, especially in relation to war crimes and crime against humanity trials; the role of conflicts between values in making decisions about foreign policy.
Education	D.Phil. Candidate, Balliol College, Oxford; M.St., Balliol College, Oxford; B.A. 2002, Yale University.
Background	Lecturer in Political Science, Yale College Summer Programs, July-August 2003; Course Co-author and Online Moderator, Alliance for Lifelong Learning/Oxford University, Summer and Fall of 2002; Research Assistant to Dr. Henry Hardy, Wolfson College, Oxford, summer 2001; Editor-in-Chief, Yale Journal of Ethics, 2001-2002.
Publications Articles	“’Tis Time to Part’: Renovating the Wall of Separation Between Church and State” Yale Journal of Ethics, Fall 1998 “’No Straight Thing: Isaiah Berlin on the Roots of Romanticism”, Yale Journal of Ethics, Spring 1999 “Giving Virtue Its Due: Peter Berkowitz on the Structure and Spirit of Liberalism” Yale Journal of Ethics, Fall 1999 “The Tragic Vision: an Essay in Ethical Exposition” Yale Journal of Ethics, 2000 “A Cautious, Sober Love Affair with Humanity”: Humanism in the Thought of Isaiah Berlin – BA thesis, published online at http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/writings_on_ib/cherniss.doc “Philosophers and freedom: six essays by Isaiah Berlin”, The Oxonian Review of Books, Hilary Term 2003, vol. 2 issue 2
Chapters in Edited Volumes	Articles on ‘Isaiah Berlin’ ‘Primo Levi’ and ‘Pluralism’ for The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, ed. Carl Mitcham (Macmillan Reference, forthcoming) “Political Ideas: From the Twentieth Century to the Romantic Age” Introduction to Isaiah Berlin, Political Ideas in the Romantic Age, ed. Henry Hardy (forthcoming). “Isaiah Berlin” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (http://plato.stanford.edu/), forthcoming, Autumn 2004

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