Eric D. Patterson, Ph.D., serves as scholar-at-large and past dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, where he previously served full-time. He has twice worked at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, served for over twenty years as an Air National Guard officer and commander, and was a White House Fellow. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including Just American Wars (Routledge, 2019), The Ashgate Research Companion on Military Ethics (with James Turner Johnson, 2016), Ending Wars Well (Yale University Press, 2012), Ethics Beyond Wars End (editor, Georgetown University Press, 2012), Politics in a Religious World (Continuum, 2011), Debating the War of Ideas (with John Gallagher, 2009), Christianity and Power Politics Today (editor, 2008), and Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats (2007). He has also published numerous scholarly articles in journals such Survival, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Journal of Political Science, International Politics, Security Studies, and International Relations. Patterson holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s in International Politics from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.