Jeremy Menchik

Menchik is the director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA). He is Associate Professor of IR and Political Science at Boston University, and author of three books. His first, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism explains the meaning of tolerance to the world’s largest Islamic organizations. His second book, Protests in the Digital Age: The Reopen Movement explains the evolution of social movements in the digital age. His third book, The Missionary Impulse in World Politics: Democracy Promotion at the End of American Liberal Imperialism, maps the role of ideology and mission in late empire. His work has appeared in the academic journals Comparative Studies in Society and History, Security Studies, Comparative Politics, International Studies Review, Politics and Religion, Asian Studies Review and South East Asia Research as well as in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. His recent research focuses on Jewish internationalism.
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