Robert Joustra

Biography

Robert Joustra is assistant professor of international studies at Redeemer University College, and Director of the Centre for Christian Scholarship. He is an editorial fellow at The Review of Faith & International Affairs, and a fellow with the D.C. think tank The Center for Public Justice. He is editor, with Jonathan Chaplin, of God and Global Order: The Power of Religion in American Foreign Policy (Baylor University Press, 2010), author with Kevin den Dulk of The Church and Religious Persecution (Calvin College Press, 2015), and author with Alissa Wilkinson of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith and Politics at the End of the World (Eerdmans, 2016). Before joining academia, he worked for nearly a decade in politics with the think tank Cardus, and currently serves on the Christian Reformed Church’s Committee to Study Religious Persecution and Liberty. His articles and reviews appear in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Books & Culture, and more.

Research Interest

International affairs, development, Canadian (and comparative) foreign policy; International theory, religious freedom, political theology, secularism; Religion and politics, religious perspectives on politics, order, and security; Political philosophy and popular culture.