Stephen Holmes

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EDUCATION 1976 1975 1974 1969

Ph.D., Yale University M.Phil., Yale University M.A., Yale University B.A., Denison University, summa cum laude

EMPLOYMENT 20001997-2000 1989-1997

1985-89 1984-85 1979-84 1977-78 1976-77 1975-76

Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law Professor of Politics, Princeton University Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Chicago (tenured member of Law School, 19931997) Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow, Wesleyan University Instructor, Yale University Acting Instructor, Yale University

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FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC HONORS 2003-2005, Carnegie Scholar 2002 Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Denison University 2000-2001 Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.) 1998Member, New York Council on Foreign Relations 1995-1996 Fellow, National Council for Soviet and East European Research 1992Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1991-92 Member, Wissenschaftskolleg (Berlin) 1988 Guggenheim Fellow 1985 N.E.H. Independent Research Fellowship 1984 Fulbright Fellow (Oslo, May-August) 1978-79 Member, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) 1978 N.E.H. Summer Fellow (Paris) 1977-78 Mellon Fellow (Wesleyan University) 1976 John Addison Porter Prize (outstanding dissertation in the humanities, Yale) 1973-74 D.A.A.D. Fellow (Heidelberg) 1969-70 Fulbright Fellow (Rome) 1968 Phi Beta Kappa

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EDITOR 1993-2003: Editor-in-Chief, East European Constitutional

Review

PUBLICATIONS Books The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror, Cambridge University Press, 2007 The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes, with Cass R. Sunstein, Norton, 1999 Italian translation: Il costo dei diritti. Perché la libertà dipende dalle tasse, Il Mulino, 2001 Polish Translation: Koszt praw, Warsaw, 2003 Chinese Translation: Peking University Press, 2004 Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy, University of Chicago Press, 1995 Italian translation: Passioni e vincoli: I fondamenti della democrazia liberale, Edizioni di Comunità, 1998. The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, Harvard University Press, 1993 German translation: Die Anatomie des Antiliberalismus, Rotbuch Verlag, 1995 Italian translation: Anatomia dell’antiliberalismo, Edizioni di Comunità, 1995. Chinese translation, 2002

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Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism, Yale University Press, 1984. French translation, Benjamin Constant et la genèse du libéralisme moderne, Presses Universitaires de France, 1994.

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Articles “Making Sense of Liberal Imperialism,” in Nadia Urbinati and Alex Zakarias (eds.), J.S. Mill’s Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 298-346. "Conjuring Up a Battlefront in the War on Terror," in World Order After Leninism (University of Washington Press, 2006), edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Marc Morje Howard, and Rudra Sil. "Conclusion: The State of the State in Putin's Russia," in Timothy J. Colton and Stephen Holmes (eds.), The State After Communism: Governance in the New Russia (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman &Littlefield, 2006), pp. 299-310. “Is Defiance of Law a Proof of Success? Magical Thinking in the War on Terror,” in The Torture Debate in America, edited by Karen Greenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 118-135. German translation: “Magisches Denken im Krieg gegen den Terror,” Folter und Feste: Die Zeit Kursbuch, vol. 143, (2006), pp. 32-44. “Plato’s Dogs: Reflections on the University After 9/11,” in To Restore American Democracy: Political Education and the Modern University, edited by Robert E. Calvert (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), pp. 185-204. “Al Qaeda, September 11, 2001,” in Making Sense of Suicide Missions, edited by Diego Gambetta (Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 131-172. “Terrorism and Accountability: Why Checks and Balances Apply Even in “The War on Terror,” with David Golove, in The NYU Review of Law & Security (April, 2004), pp. 2-7. “La cecità dell’America,” in Micromega, no. 4, 2004, pp. 181-190.

6 “Lineages of the Rule of Law,” in José María Maravall and Adam Przeworski (eds.), Democracy and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 19-61. “Judicial Independence as Ambiguous Reality and Insidious Illusion,” in Ronald Dworkin (ed.), From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis (CEU Press, 2003), pp. 3-14. “A European Doppelstaat?,” in East European Politics and Society, vol. , no. 2003, pp. 107-118. “Potemkin Democracy,” in The Making and Unmaking of Democracy, edited by Theodore K. Rabb and Ezra N. Suleiman (New York: Routledge, 2003), pp. 109-133. “Why International Justice Limps,” in Social Research, vol. 9, no. 4 (winter 2002), pp. 1055-1075. “Liberalism in the Mirror of Transnational Terror,” The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXII, no. 2 (2001), pp. 5-35. “Managing Rage: How to Deal with Anti-American Backlash,” in The American Prospect (November 19, 2001), pp. 8-10. “Simulations of Power in Putin’s Russia,” in Current History (October 2001), pp. 307-312. “Can a Coin-Toss Election Trigger a Constitutional Earthquake?” in The Unfinished Election of 2000, edited by Jack Rakove (Basic Books, 2001), pp. 235-251. “Constitutionalism, Democracy, and State Decay,” in Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights, edited by Harold Hongju Koh and Ronald C. Slye (Yale University Press, 1999), pp. 116-135. "Can Foreign Aid Promote the Rule of Law?," East European Constitutional Review (Fall 1999), vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 68-74.

7 “Can Weak-State Liberalism Survive?,” in Liberalism and its Practice, edited by Dan Avnon and Avner de-Shalit, Routledge, 1999, pp. 31-49. “Harcèlement judiciaire et médiatique aux États-Unis,” in Esprit (November 1998), pp. 6-13. "What Russia Teaches us Now," The American Prospect (July-August 1997), pp. 30-39. Russia translation in Pro et Contra, Tom 2, No. 4, fall 1997, pp. 125140; French translation in Esprit, Juillet 1998, pp. 97-111; other translations published in Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Italian. “Cultural Legacies or State Decay: Probing the Postcommunist Dilemma,” Postcommunism: Four Views, edited by Michael Mandelbaum, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1996 “Ordinary Passions,” in Liberalism without Illusions, edited by Bernard Yack, University of Chicago Press, 1996, pp. 95-110. “Ohne Strom in Wladiwostock,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 281, 2 December 1995. "The Politics of Economics in the Czech Republic," East European Constitutional Review, vol. 4, no. 2 (Spring 1995), pp. 52-55. "Constitutionalism," The Encyclopedia of Democracy, 1995. "Conceptions of Democracy in the Draft Constitutions of Post-Communist Countries," Markets, States, and Democracy, edited by Beverly Crawford (Westview Press, 1995), pp. 71-81. "The End of Decommunization," in East European Constitutional Review, vol. 3, nos. 3-4 (Summer/Fall 1994), pp. 33-36. German translation in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (15 December 1994), no. 291, p. 33; Romanian translation in Dilema, vol. 2, no. 98 (25

8 November-1 December 1994), pp. 6-7; Russian translation in Konstitutsionnoe pravo: vostochnoevropeiskoe obozrenie, vol. 3, no. 8 (1994), pp. 17-19. “The Politics of Constitutional Revision in Eastern Europe,” with Cass R. Sunstein, in Sanford Levinson (ed.), Responding to Imperfection: The Theory and Practice of Constitutional Amendment, Princeton University Press, 1995, pp. 275-306. "Liberalism for a World of Ethnic Passions and Decaying States," Social Research, vol. 61, no. 2 (Fall 1994), pp. 599-610. “Rivalen in einem Boot: Über das Verschwinden der politischen Lager,” in Norberto Bobbio et al, What’s Left? Prognosen zur Linken, Rotbuch Verlag, 1993, pp. 53-59. "Tocqueville and Democracy," The Idea of Democracy, edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton, and John E. Roemer, Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 23-63. "Back to the Drawing Board: an Argument for Constitutional Postponement in Eastern Europe," East European Constitutional Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 21-25 Polish translation in Pánstwo i Prawo, vol. 48, no. 8 (August, 1993), pp. 40-47; Hungarian translation in Jogállam, 1993, pp. 66-73; Bulgarian translation in Politicheski Izsledvania (1994), no. 1, pp. 26-32. "Treasures of Hate and Envy: A Reading of Tocqueville's Ancien régime," Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Jahrbuch 1991/92 (Nikolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1993), pp. 210-232. “The Liberal Idea,” The American Prospect, No. 7 (Fall 1991), pp. 81-96. Italian translation in Micromega 1/94, marzo-aprile, 1994, pp. 37-59. "Constant and Tocqueville: An Unexplored Relationship," Annales Benjamin Constant, no. 12 (1991), pp. 29-41.

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"The Secret History of Self-Interest," in Against Self-Interest, edited by Jane Mansbridge, University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. 267-286. "Introduction" to Hobbes's Behemoth, University of Chicago Press, 1990, pp. vii-1. A shorter version published as "Political Psychology in Hobbes's Behemoth," in Hobbes and Political Theory, edited by Mary G. Dietz, University of Kansas Press, 1990, pp. 120-152. "The Permanent Structure of Antiliberal Thought," in Liberalism and the Moral Life, edited by Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 227-253. Excerpted as "The Community Trap," The New Republic, 28 November 1988, pp. 24-28. "Liberal Constraints on Private Power?: Reflections on the Origins and Rationale of Access Regulation," in Democracy and the Mass Media, edited by Judith Lichtenberg, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp. 21-65. "J.S. Mill: Fallibilism, Expertise, and the Politics-Science Analogy," in Knowledge and Politics, edited by Marcelo Dascel and Ora Gruengard, Westview Press, 1989, pp. 125-143. "Precommitment and the Paradox of Democracy," in Constitutionalism and Democracy, edited by Jon Elster and Rune Slagstad, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 195-240. German translation in Zum Begriff der Verfassung: Die Ordnung des Politischen, edited by Ulrich Preuss, Fischer Verlag, 1994. "Gag Rules or the Politics of Omission," in Constitutionalism and Democracy, edited by Elster and Slagstad, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 19-58.

10 "Jean Bodin: The Paradox of Sovereignty and the Privatization of Religion," Religion, Morality, and the Law, Nomos XXX, edited by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, New York University Press, 1988, pp. 5-45. "Liberal Guilt: Some Theoretical Origins of the Welfare State," Responsibility, Rights, and Welfare: the Theory of the Welfare State, edited by J. Donald Moon, Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1988, pp. 77-106. "Poesie der Indifferenz," Theorie als Passion: Niklas Luhmann zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by D. Baecker, J. Markowitz, R. Stichweh, H. Tyrell, and H. Willke, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1987, pp. 15-45. "Differenzierung und Arbeitsteilung im Denken des Liberalismus," in Soziale Differenzierung: Zur Geschichte einer Idee, edited by Niklas Luhmann, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1985, pp. 9-41. "Reading Marx Apolitically," Marxism, Nomos XXVI, edited by J. Roland Pennock and John Chapman, New York University Press, 1983, pp. 11318. "Two Concepts of Legitimacy: France After the Revolution," Political Theory, vol. 10, no. 2, May 1982, pp. 165-83. "Liberal Uses of Bourbon Legitimacy," The Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. xliii, no. 2, April-June 1982, pp. 229-48. "Translators' Introduction," (with Charles Larmore), in Niklas Luhmann, The Differentiation of Society, Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. xiiixxxvii. "The Barbarism of Reflection," in Vico: Past and Present, edited by Giorgio Tagliacozzo, Humanities Press, 1981, pp. 213-22. "Aristippus In and Out of Athens," American Political Science Review, March 1979, pp. 113-28.

11 "A Reply to Nichols," American Political Science Review, March 1979, pp. 134-38. "A Reply to Gass," American Political Science Review, December 1979, p. 1110. "Intersoggetività in funzione trascendentale," Enciclopedia 1976-1977, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1977, pp. 134-38. "Nisi Credidero Non Intelligam: The Neo-Anselmian Theory of Categories in Collingwood and Körner," Rivista di Studi Crociani, vol. x, no. 1, January-March 1973, pp. 28-42.

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Reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel (Free Press) and Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam (Penguin) in The American Prospect (April 4, 2007) Francis Fukuyama, America at the Crossroads (Yale University Press), in London Review of Books (October 5, 2006) Gordon and Trainor, Bernard, Cobra II, in The American Prospect (June 2006) John Yoo, The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs After 9/11 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), in The Nation (1 May 2006), pp. Paul Berman, Power and the Idealists: or, the Passion of Joschka Fischer (Softskull Press, 2005); and David Rieff, At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention (Simon & Schuster, 2005), in The Nation (14 November 2005), pp. 29-40. Geoffrey Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (Norton, 2004) in The New Republic (28 February 2005), pp. 31-37. Michael Mann, Incoherent Empire (Verso, 2003) in London Review of Books (6 May 2004), pp. 9-14. James Mann, Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet (Viking, 2004) in The Nation (May 10, 2004), pp. 25-30. Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Norton, 2003), in The American Prospect (June 2003), pp. Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power (Knopf, 2002) in The American Prospect (April 2003), pp. 47-50.

13 Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002) and David Halberstam, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals (Bloomsbury, 2001), in London Review of Books, 14 November 2002, pp. 3-8. Sheldon Wolin, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton University Press, 2001) in The New Republic (March 4 & 11, 2002), pp. 31-38. John Ikenberry, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Eebuilding of Order After Major War (Princeton University, 2001), in The New Republic (November 19, 2001), pp. 45-49. Stephen Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia (Norton, 2000), in London Review of Books, 19 April 2001, pp. 32-35. Bruce Ackerman, The Case against Lameduck Impeachment (Seven Stories Press, 1999) and Alan Dershowitz, Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis (Basic Books, 1998) in London Review of Books (March 1999), pp. Karl Marx and Friederich Engels, The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition, Verso, 1998, in London Review of Books (29 October 1998), pp. 10-15. Anton Bebler (ed.), Civil-Military Relations in Post-Communist States: Central and Eastern Europe in Transition, Praeger, 1997, in Incore (August, 1998), p. Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Cultures, Simon and Schuster, in London Review of Books (April 24, 1997), pp. 3-10. Ira Katznelson, Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik, Princeton University Press, 1996, in Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, no. 5 (September/October 1996), pp. 126-133.

14 Alan Ryan, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Norton, 1995, in The New Republic, March 11, 1996, pp. 40-46. John Rawls, Political Liberalism, Columbia University Press, 1993, in The New Republic, October 11, 1993, pp. 39-47. Kenneth Jowitt, New World Disorder: the Leninist Extinction, University of California Press, 1992, in East European Constitutional Review, vol. 1, no. 2 (summer 1992), pp. 31-32. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, 1992, in The New Republic, 23 March 1992, pp. 27-33. Bulgarian translation in Politicheski Izsledvania (1993), no. 4, pp. 99107. Christopher Lasch, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics, W.W.Norton, 1991, in The New Republic, 25 March 1991, pp. 29-36. Leo Strauss, The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism, University of Chicago Press, 1989, in Times Literary Supplement, 1-7 December 1989, pp. 1319-1324. German translation, "Wahrheiten für wenige—Leo Strauss und die Gefährlichkeit der Philosophie," in Merkur, July 1990, Heft 497, pp. 554-569. Richard A. Lebrun, Joseph de Maistre: An Intellectual Militant, McGillQueen's University Press, 1988, in The New Republic, 30 October 1989, pp. 32-37. Carl Schmitt, Political Romanticism; Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty; The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, MIT Press, 1985-1986, in The New Republic, 22 August 1988, pp. 31-36. Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, University of Notre Dame Press, 1988, in The New Republic, 6 June 1988, pp. 3239.

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Roberto Unger, Politics, a Work in Constructive Social Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1987, in The New Republic, 19 October 1987, pp. 30-38. Timothy O'Hagan, The End of Law?, Oxford: Blackwell, 1984, in Ethics, vol. 96, no. 3, April 1986, pp. 645-646. Alexis de Tocqueville, Selected Letters on Politics and Society, edited by Roger Boesche, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984, in The New Republic, 2 December 1985, pp. 38-40. Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, in American Political Science Review, March 1984, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 278-79. Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice and John Kenneth Galbraith, Anatomy of Power, in Harvard Magazine, January-February 1984, pp. 17-19. Sissela Bok, Secrets, in Harvard Magazine, May-June 1983, pp. 4-7. Joseph Bendersky, Carl Schmitt: Theorist of the Reich, in American Political Science Review, vol. 77, no. 4, December 1983, pp. 1066-67. Bruce Ackerman, Social Justice in the Liberal State and William Galston, Justice and the Human Good, in The Journal of Politics, vol. 43, October 1981, pp. 1254-56. The Frontiers of Political Theory, edited by Michael Freeman and D. Robertson, American Political Science Review, vol. 75, September 1981, pp. 742-43. Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, in American Political Science Review, December 1979, pp. 1133-35. Karl-Otto Apel, Transformation der Philosophie, in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. xv, no. 2, June 1975, pp. 215-26.