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AURELIAN CRAIUTU
Professor
Department of Political Science, Indiana University
210 Woodburn Hall, 1100 E. 7th St., Bloomington, IN 47405
tel: (812) 855-6308; fax: (812) 855-2027
e-mail: [email protected]
http://polisci.indiana.edu/faculty/profiles/acraiutu.shtml;
https://iub.academia.edu/AurelianCraiutu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
(July 2012-present).
Adjunct faculty member in the American Studies Program and the Lilly School of
Philanthropic Studies, Indiana University. Also affiliated with the Ostrom
Workshop; the Russian and East European Institute; the Institute of European
Studies; the Individualized Major Program, the Hutton Honors College, and the
Liberal Arts Management Program (2005-2014) at Indiana University.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, 2007-2012.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, 2001-2007.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Northern
Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, 2000-2001.
Visiting Assistant Professor & Gerst Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Political
Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1999-2000.
Lecturer, Department of Politics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1998-1999.
EDUCATION
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.
Ph.D. in Politics (Political Theory), July 1999.
Doctoral dissertation: The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty: Reflections on the
Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires. Awarded the 2000 APSA’s Leo
Strauss Award for the best dissertation in political philosophy submitted in 1998
and 1999. Advisors: George Kateb and Alan Ryan.
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M.A. in Politics, 1996.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Visiting Fulbright scholar, 1993-1994.
University of Rennes I, Rennes, France.
Maîtrise level, 1990-91.
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.
B.A. with Honors in Economics, 1988.
TEACHING
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (2001-present).
Undergraduate courses:
“Introduction to Political Theory”
“Modern Political Ideologies”
“Classical Political Thought”
“Modern Political Thought”
Y396 “Happiness, Politics, and Society”
“Happiness”
“America Seen through Foreign Eyes”
Graduate courses:
“Theories of Moderation and Radicalism”
“Classics of Social and Political Thought”
“Approaches and Issues in Political Theory”
“Before and After the Revolution”
“The French Revolution and Its Interpreters”
“After the Revolution”
“Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World”
University of Paris-II, Panthéon-Assas. Visiting Professor (May 2010).
Lectures on French Liberalism (Constant and Mme de Staël).
National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania,
Visiting Professor (2005, 2006).
Graduate courses:
Ph.D. seminar, “Liberalism and Democracy,” (May-June 2005)
Ph. D. seminar, “The Third Way and Its Critics” (May-June 2006)
University of Northern Iowa, Assistant Professor (2000-2001).
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Undergraduate courses:
“Modern Political Thought”
“Contemporary Political Problems”
“Issues in Political Thought: Democracy”
Duke University, Gerst Post-Doctoral Fellow (1999-2000).
Undergraduate courses:
“Political Theory and Post-1989 Eastern Europe”
“Conceptions of Patriotism and Nationalism”
Princeton University, Lecturer (Spring 1999) and Teaching Assistant and Course
Administrator (1997-1998)
Undergraduate courses:
“Modern Political Theory”
“Introduction to Political Theory”
“Democratic Theory”
“Modern Political Theory”
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and Modern Intellectual History:
Modern and contemporary political theory; political ideologies (liberalism,
conservatism); moderation and radicalism; French social and political thought;
constitutionalism; comparative political thought.
Democratic theory & democratic consolidation.
DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Chair of Ph.D. dissertations at Indiana University (Alin Fumurescu, 2012; Katrin Jomaa,
2012; Brendon Westler, 2016; Matthew Slaboch, 2016; Zachary Goldsmith, in progress)
Member of Ph.D. and MA committees at Indiana University (10+ students including
Thomas Hoffman, Charles M. Hoffman, Ty Shaffer. Nathan Basik, Heather McDougall,
Celestino Perez, Tim Kersey, Bogdan Popa, Jean-Bertrand Ribat, Matthew Kuchem-
since 2001).
Outside member of Ph. D. committees at University of Bucharest, Romania (2006),
University of Notre Dame (2011), University of Manchester, UK (2016).
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PUBLICATIONS
1. BOOKS
Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 295 pp. http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15561.html
Reviews: New York Times (12/17/16),
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/17/opinion/sunday/one-way-not-to-be-like-
trump.html?_r=0; The Week (12/21/16), http://theweek.com/articles/668210/resist-
radicalism-resist-chaos-embrace-moderation; NPR (On Point, 1/2/2017),
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/01/02/political-moderation;
Book Panel and Discussion on Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an
Age of Extremes (with commentators Joshua Cherniss and Karol Soltan, chaired by Peter
Boettke). George Mason University, F.A. Hayek Program, Mercatus Center, January 26,
2017.
A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748-1830
(Princeton University Press, 2012), 338 pp. Paperback edition, May 2016.
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9738.html.
Reviews: La Vie des idées (France, October 2012); 22 (Twenty-Two, Bucharest,
Romania, September 18, 2012); French History (UK, Fall 2012, with a response by the
author); Revue française de science politique (France, Vol. 62, 4, 2012); Il pensiero
politico (Italy, No. 3, 2012); Giornale di storia costituzionale (Italy, No. 23, 2012);
Society (May 2013); H-France (May 2013); French Studies (July 2013), Historische
Zeitschrift (Germany, Band 297, 2013); Review of Metaphysics (June 2013); Los Angeles
Review of Books (September 2013), European History Quarterly (October 2013), French
Politics, Culture, and Society (Winter 2013), Annales Benjamin Constant (No. 38, 2013),
Perspectives on Politics (March 2014); Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (Netherlands,
127:1, April 2014); American Historical Review (June 2014); European Journal of
Political Theory (No. 4, 2014); Jus Politicum (Paris, n° 13, December 2014); The
European Legacy (No. 20:1, 2015); Modern Intellectual History (2015); Politica exterior
(May 12, 2015); Review of Politics (Fall 2015); History of European Ideas (2015);
Eighteenth-Century Life (September 2015); History of Political Thought (2015),
Almanack Guarulhos (Brazil, no. 14/2016).
Reference: in David Brooks’s op-ed, “What Moderation Means,” The New York
Times (October 26, 2012). http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/opinion/brooks-
what-moderation-means.html?_r=0
Le Centre introuvable: la pensée politique des doctrinaires français sous la Restauration,
trans. Isabelle Hausser et revue par l’auteur (Paris: Éditions Plon, 2006), 368 pp
(“Commentaire” series). A substantially revised and enlarged French edition of
Liberalism under Siege, with an updated bibliography and a note on the new edition.
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https://www.amazon.fr/Centre-introuvable-politique-doctrinaires-
Restauration/dp/2259203787/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1460499272&sr=8-
3&keywords=craiutu
Reviews: Revue Française de Science Politique (February 2007), Esprit (June
2007), Commentaire (No. 119, 2007), Royaliste (No. 902, April 16-29, 2007),
Raison Politique (February 2008), Bollettino telematico di filosofia politica
(Italy), Online Journal of Political Philosophy, (February 2009),
http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/hj05b/212
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Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, with a
foreword by Alan Ryan (Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003),
337 pp. CHOICE Magazine 2004 Outstanding Academic Title.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739106587
Reviews: Perspectives on Politics (US, June 2004), History of Political Thought
(UK, December 2004), American Historical Review (US, October 2004), Choice
(US, April 2004), Political Studies Review (UK, September 2004), Perspectives
on Political Science (US, Spring 2004), Review of Politics (US, Fall 2004),
History (2004), Romanian Political Science Review (Romania, Fall 2004), French
Studies (UK, April 2005), European Legacy (UK, June 2005), French Politics,
Culture & Society (US, Spring 2005), Historische Zeitschrift (Germany, 1/2005),
Filosofia politica (Italy, August 2005), Political Theory (US, October, 2005),
French History (UK, 2005), Publius (US, 2005), Foundations of Political Theory
(US, 2005), European History Quarterly, (UK, January 2006), H-France (US,
January 2006).
Elogiul moderaţiei [In Praise of Moderation] (Iaşi: Polirom, 2006), 224 pp [in
Romanian]
The ten chapters of the book explore the meanings and facets of moderation in the
works of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Gracián, Halifax, Burke,
Tocqueville, Guizot, Macaulay, and Aron. ISBN: 973-46-0274-8.
http://www.polirom.ro/catalog/carte/elogiul-moderatiei-2220/detalii.html
Elogiul libertăţii: Studii de filosofie politică [In Praise of Liberty: Studies in Political
Philosophy], (Iaşi: Polirom, 1998), 220 pp [in Romanian].
The nine chapters of the book include chapters on liberalism and its critics, Joseph
and Maistre and Louis de Bonald, the anatomy of anti-liberalism, the
communitarianism of Alasdair MacIntyre, democratization and civic culture.
ISBN: 973-683-080-2. http://www.polirom.ro/catalog/carte/elogiu-libertatii-201/
2. EDITED VOLUMES:
Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings, edited and translated,
with an interpretive essay, notes, and appendices by Aurelian Craiutu and Jeremy
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Jennings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 560 pp.
http://www.cup.es/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521676830
Reviews: H-France (January 2010); Claremont Review of Books (Summer 2010),
Society (May 2010), History of European Ideas (2011), Journal of
Interdisciplinary History (2011), Journal of the Civil War Era (2011), The
Tocqueville Review (2011), European Journal of Political Theory (2012), The
Journal of Southern History (2012), Nineteenth-century French Studies (2014)
Roundtables on the book: 2009 APSA Annual Meeting, Toronto (with James T.
Schleifer, Cheryl Welch, Jennifer Pitts); Boston College, Clough Center (2009,
with Harvey Mansfield, Cheryl Welch, and R. Shep Melnick),
http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/craiutu/
America through European Eyes: English and French Reflections on the New World from
the Eighteenth-Century to the Present, edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac
(University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), 288 pp.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03390-7.html
Reviews: H-France (October 2009), French Studies (December 2009), American
Studies (Spring/Summer 2009), European Journal of Political Theory (2012),
Nineteenth-century French Studies (2014), European History Quarterly (2014)
Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First
Century. Edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar (Lanham, Md.: Lexington
Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), 337 pp.https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739123027
Reviews: Journal of Democracy (April 2009), Perspectives on Political Science
(Summer 2009), Nineteenth-century French Studies (2012)
Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël.
Newly revised translation of the 1818 edition, with an introduction, bibliography, and
notes by Aurelian Craiutu (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008), 804 pp.
http://files.libertyfund.org/files/2212/Stael_1459_EBk_v6.0.pdf
Reviews: H-France (September 2009); Cahiers staëliens (2010); Nineteenth-
century French Studies (Spring-Summer 2011), English Historical Review
(August 2011).
Prize: Winner of the Chicago Book Clinic 2009 Book& Media
Scholarly/Reference First Prize.http://chicagobookclinic.org/news/2009-book-
media-show-winners-and-honorable-mentions/
History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe by François Guizot,
edited with an introduction, and notes by Aurelian Craiutu (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,
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2002), http://files.libertyfund.org/files/878/Guizot_0470_EBk_v6.0.pdf
Dialog şi libertate: Eseuri în onoarea lui Mihai Şora [Dialogue and Liberty: Essays in
Honor of Mihai Şora], edited by Aurelian Craiutu & Sorin Antohi (Bucharest: Nemira
Publishing House, 1997) [in Romanian].
3. EDITED JOURNALS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
Guest Editor (with C. Bradatan), special issue on “The Anatomy of Marginality,” The
European Legacy, The European Legacy, 17: 6 (2012). Co-author (with C. Bradatan) of
the introduction to this special issue (pp. 721-29) and the conversation with Ramin
Jahanbegloo (pp. 731-43).
Guest Editor, Secolul 21, No. 7-12, 2012, special issue on “America through European
Eyes,” Bucharest [in Romanian]. A partial Romanian translation of America through
European Eyes (Penn State UP, 2009) including essays by A. Craiutu (pp. 6-13, 43-77),
A. Levine, J. Isaac, J. Jennings, R. Boyd, and P. Deneen.
http://secolul21.ro/bkp/numere/america-prin-ochii-europenilor/sumar-america/index.htm
4. MANUSCRIPTS COMPLETED OR IN PROGRESS:
Moderation and the Rise of Political Democracy in France, 1830-1900. Book manuscript
in progress (a sequel to A Virtue for Courageous Minds, 1748-1830).
In Defense of Moderation: Rediscovering a Forgotten Virtue. Book manuscript in
progress.
Jacques Necker, An Essay on the True Principles of the Executive Power in Great States.
A newly revised English translation and annotated edition, with a new introduction.
Under contract with Liberty Fund (expected delivery, June 2017).
5. ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:
A. PEER-REVIEWED AND SCHOLARLY ARTICLES:
“Two Critical Spectators: José Ortega y Gasset and Raymond Aron” (with Brendon
Westler), The Review of Politics (US), Vol. 77, No. 4, Fall 2015, pp. 575-602.
“Une vertu politique: la modération,” Commentaire (Paris, France), Vol. 148, No. 4
(2014), pp. 793-802 [in French], http://www.commentaire.fr/revue/148/revue-148-
printemps-2014.html
“The Paradoxes of Marginality” (with Costica Bradatan), The European Legacy
(Israel/UK) Vol. 17, No. 6 (2012), pp. 721-29.
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“On Margins, Marginals, and Marginalities: A Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo”
(with Costica Bradatan), The European Legacy (Israel/UK) 17: 6 (2012): 731-43.
Translated into Farsi (by Shabnam Abbarin): دربارة پيرامون، پيرامونی، و پيرامونی بودن: گفت و
.Radio Farda (Prague, Czech Republic), June-July 2013 ,(I & II) گويی با رامين جهانبگلو
Translated into Turkish (by Çeviren Minem Sezgin) “Marjin, Marjinal ve Marjinallikler”
(I & II), in Birikim, 8 & 10 February 2013,
http://www.birikimdergisi.com/birikim/default.aspx)
“Faces of Moderation: Mme de Staël and Benjamin Constant under the Directory (1795-
1799),” Jus Politicum (University of Paris II, France), No. 6, October 2011;
http://www.juspoliticum.com/Faces-of-Moderation-Mme-de-Stael-s.html;
http://www.juspoliticum.com/-No6-.html
“From the Social Contract to the Art of Association: A Tocquevillian Perspective,” Social
Philosophy and Policy (US), Vol. 25, No. 2, July 2008, pp. 263-87.
“In Search of Happiness: Victor Jacquemont’s Travel to America,” The European Legacy
(Israel/UK), Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 13-33.
“Mihai Şora: A Philosopher of Dialogue,” East European Politics and Societies (US),
Vol. 21, No. 4, 2007, pp. 611-38.
“Tocqueville’s Paradoxical Moderation,” The Review of Politics (US), Vol. 67, No. 4,
Fall 2005, pp. 599-629.
“Raymond Aron’s Response to Irresponsible Metaphysics,” Nação E Defesa (Lisbon,
Portugal), No. 111, Summer 2005, 3rd series, pp. 27-58.
“The Third Democracy: Tocqueville’s View of America after 1840” (with Jeremy
Jennings), American Political Science Review (US), Vol. 98, No. 3, August 2004, pp.
391-404.
“The Method of the French Doctrinaires,” History of European Ideas (UK), Volume 30,
No. 1, 2004, pp. 39-59.
“Rethinking Political Power: The Case of the French Doctrinaires,” European Journal of
Political Theory (UK), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003, pp. 125-55.
“Guizot’s Elitist Theory of Representative Government,” Critical Review (US), Vol. 15,
Nos. 3-4, 2003, pp. 261-84.
“Publicity, Liberty of the Press, and Representative Government in the Writings of the
French Doctrinaires,” Studia Politica (University of Bucharest, Romania), Vol. III, No. 1,
2003, pp. 51-72 [in English]
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“The Battle for Legitimacy: Constant and Guizot on Sovereignty,”Historical
Reflections/Reflexions historiques, Vol. 28. No. 3, 2002, pp. 471-91.
“The Virtues of Political Moderation,” Political Theory (US), Vol. 29, No. 3, June 2001,
pp. 449-68.
“Tocqueville and the Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires,” History of Political
Thought (UK), Vol. XX, No. 3, Fall 1999, pp. 456-93.
“’A Tunnel at the End of Light?’: Notes on the Rhetoric of the Great Transformation in
Eastern Europe,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs (US), Vol. 2, No. 1, March 1999, pp. 31-58.
“Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Strange Liberalism of the French Doctrinaires,”
History of European Ideas (UK), Vol. 24, Nos. 4-5, 1998, pp. 243-65.
“A Dilemma of Dual Identity: The Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania,” East
European Constitutional Review (US), Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 43-49.
B. BOOK CHAPTERS AND INTRODUCTORY STUDIES:
Isaiah Berlin on Marx and Marxism,” in The Cambridge Companion to Isaiah Berlin,
eds. Steven B. Smith and Joshua Cherniss (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
“On Faith and Democracy as a New Form of Religion: A Few Tocquevillian
Reflections” (with Matthew N. Holbreich), in Combining the Spirit of Religion and the
Spirit of Liberty: Tocqueville’s Thesis Revisited, ed. Michael Zuckert, University of
Chicago Press (2017).
“In Praise of Liberty: Madame de Staël’s Considerations,” in Alan S. Kahan and Ewa
Atanassow eds., Liberal Moments (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
“Rousseau and Madame de Staël: A Surprising Intellectual Dialogue,” in Thinking with
Rousseau: From Machiavelli to Schmitt, ed. Helena Rosenblatt and Paul Schweigert,
Cambridge University Press (2017).
“Raymond Aron and Alexis de Tocqueville: Political Moderation, Liberty, and the Role
of the Intellectuals,” in A Companion to Raymond Aron, eds. José Colen and Elizabeth
Dutartre, Astier (France) & Palgrave Macmillan (UK/USA), 2015, pp. 261-74.
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/the-companion-to-raymond-aron-jos%C3%A9-
colen/?K=9781137522429.
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Translated and published as chapter 15 of the French edition of the Companion to
Aron as “Raymond Aron et Alexis de Tocqueville: Deux esprits modérés,” eds J.
Colen et E. Dutartre, Paris: Astier, 2017, pp. 260-75
“Tocquevilles neue politische Wissenschaft wiederentdecken: Einige Lektionen für
zeitgenössische Sozialwissenschaftler“ in: Harald Bluhm and Skadi Krause (Hg.), Alexis
de Tocqueville. Analytiker der Demockratie, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015, pp.
33-51. ISBN 978-3-7705-5954-1 [in German, trans. Skadi Krause]
„Et in inferno ego: Matei Calinescu’s Political Reflections,“ in Yearbook of Comparative
Literature: Matei Calinescu Festschrift, University of Toronto Press and Indiana
University, Vol. 59, 2013 (published in 2016), pp. 51-63, http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33427
“Tocqueville and Eastern Europe,” in Christine D. Henderson ed., Tocqueville’s Voyages:
The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time (Indianapolis: Liberty
Fund, 2015), pp. 390-424.
“Raymond Aron and the French Tradition of Political Moderation” in Raf Geenens and
Helena Rosenblatt, eds., French Liberalism: From Montesquieu to the Present Day
(Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 271-90.
http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107017436&ss=toc
“On Happiness in Unusual Places N. Steinhardt’s Uplifting Lesson,” in C. Bradatan ed.,
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe (London: Routledge,
2012), pp. 83-97, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415699198/
“Moderation and the Group of Coppet” in Karyna Szmurlo, ed., Germaine de Staël’s
Politics of Mediation: Challenges to History and Culture (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation,
2011), pp. 109-24. http://xserve.volt.ox.ac.uk/VFcatalogue/details.php?recid=6510
“Afterword,” to Camil Ungureanu, ed,. Religia in spatiul public: o dilema a modernitatii,
[Religion in the Public Space: A Dilemma of Modernity] (Polirom, 2011), pp. 411-17.
http://www.polirom.ro/catalog/carte/religia-in-democratie-o-dilema-a-modernitati-4278/
“Thinking Politically: Raymond Aron and the Revolution of 1968 in France,” in Vladimir
Tismaneanu, ed., Promises of 1968: Crisis, Illusion, and Utopia (Budapest-New York:
Central European University Press, 2011), pp. 101-27.
“Mihai Şora: A Philosopher of Dialogue and Hope,” in In Marx's Shadow. Knowledge,
Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia, eds. Costica Bradatan and
Serguei Oushakine (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), pp.
261-85.
“The Third Democracy: Tocqueville’s Views of America after 1840” (with Jeremy
Jennings), introductory study in: Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other
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Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 1-39, 489-503. Also in the
same volume: Introductions to Part I, A-D (pp. 41-51), Part I, E (pp. 318-21), Part II, A
(pp. 343-50), Part II, B ( pp. 370-72), Part II, C (pp. 377-81), Part II, D (409-12), Part II,
E (p. 456).
“A Precursor of Tocqueville: Victor Jacquemont’s Reflections on America,” in America
through European Eyes, edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Jeffrey C. Isaac (University Park,
PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009), pp. 117-41.
“European in Search of America” (with Jeffrey C. Isaac), Introduction to: in America
through European Eyes, pp. 1-14.
“What Kind of Social Scientist Was Tocqueville?” in Conversations with Tocqueville:
The Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Aurelian Craiutu and
Sheldon Gellar (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009), pp. 55-
81.
“Tocqueville and Us” (with Sheldon Gellar), Introduction to: Conversations with
Tocqueville: The Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century, pp. 1-18.
“A Thinker for our Times: Madame de Staël,” Introduction to Considerations on the
Principal Events of the French Revolution by Madame de Staël, ed. Aurelian Craiutu
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008), pp. vii-xxiv.
“From the Social Contract to the Art of Association: A Tocquevillian Perspective,” in
Freedom of Association, eds. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
“Faces of Moderation: Raymond Aron’s Committed Observer,” in Daniel J. Mahoney and
Brian Paul Frost, eds. Political Reason in an Age of Ideology, Transaction Publishers,
2007, pp. 261-283.
“Between Left and Right: Tocqueville’s Lesson,” Secolul 21 (The Twenty-First Century),
2005, pp. 148-178 [in Romanian].
“Gustave Thibon.” Foreword to the Romanian translation of Gustave Thibon, Diagnostic:
Eseu de fiziologie socială, Cluj: Echinox, 2004, pp. 5-16 [in Romanian].
“National Reconciliation in Post-Communist Romania,” in: Henry F. Carey ed., National
Reconciliation in Eastern Europe, Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 207-31.
“An Aristocratic Liberal,” in: Cristian Badilita and Tudorel Urian eds., Nostalgia
Europei: Eseuri in onoarea lui Alexandru Paleologu (The Nostalgia of Europe: Essays in
Honor of Alexandru Paleologu), Iasi: Polirom, 2003, pp. 199-204 [in Romanian].
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Editor’s Introduction to History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe
by François Guizot, edited with an introduction, and notes by Aurelian Craiutu
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2002), pp. vii-xvi.
“Patriotism: an Obsolete Concept?”, Introduction to the Romanian translation of
Maurizio Viroli’s For Love of Country, Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House, 2002,
pp. 5-17 [in Romanian].
“A Great Liberal Thinker: François Guizot.” Introduction to the Romanian translation of
François Guizot, History of Civilization in Europe, Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing
House, 2001, pp. 5-16 [in Romanian].
“Romania 1989-1998,” in: Geoffrey Pridham and Tom Gallagher (eds.), Experimenting
with Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans, London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 169-94.
“Mircea Eliade,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Steven Serafin ed., Detroit:
Bruccoli, 2000, pp. 132-46.
“Benjamin Constant: The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the
Ancients,” in: Dictionar de opera politice fundamentale (Dictionary of Fundamental
Political Writings), Laurentiu Stefan-Scalat ed., Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000, pp. 81-86
[in Romanian].
“François Guizot: Political Philosophy (1823),” in Dictionar de opera politice
fundamentale (Dictionary of Fundamental Political Writings), Laurentiu Stefan-Scalat
ed., Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000, pp. 127-134 [in Romanian].
“Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America,” in: Dictionar de opera politice
fundamentale (Dictionary of Fundamental Political Writings), Laurentiu Stefan-Scalat
ed., Bucharest: Humanitas, 2000, pp. 393-400 [in Romanian].
“Norberto Bobbio or the Democratic Face of the Left.” Introduction to the Romanian
translation of Norberto Bobbio, Left and Right, Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House,
1999, pp. 5-18 [in Romanian].
“Mancur Olson: The Passion for Simple and Clear Ideas.” Introduction to the Romanian
translation of Mancur Olson, The Rise and the Decline of Nations, Bucharest: Humanitas
Publishing House, 1998, pp. 5-13 [in Romanian].
“Alasdair MacIntyre’s New Thomist Catechism.” Introduction to the Romanian
translation of Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House,
1998, pp. 5-21 [in Romanian].
“To Be or Not To Be Liberal?” (“A fi sau a nu fi liberal?”), in: Doctrine politice
contemporane (Contemporary Political Doctrines) ed. Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Iasi:
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Polirom Publishing House, 1998, pp. 17-44 [in Romanian].
“From Political Clientelism to Civil Society,” in: Momentul adevarului, Vol. IV, ed.
Iordan Chimet, Cluj: Dacia, 1996, pp. 453-67 [in Romanian].
“Notes on Mihai Sora’s Political Philosophy,” in: Dialog si Libertate (Dialogue and
Liberty), eds. Aurelian Craiutu & Sorin Antohi, Bucharest, Romania: Nemira Publishing
House, 1997, pp. 101-119 [in Romanian].
“N. Steinhardt,” in The Encyclopedia of the Essay, ed. Tracy Chevalier, London: Fitzroy
Dearborn, 1997, pp. 813-15.
“Toward a Personalist Society,” in: Person and Communion. Festschrift Dumitru
Staniloae 1903-1993, eds. A. Plamadeala, M. Pacurariu, and Ioan I. Ica, Sibiu: Ed.
Arhiepiscopiei Ortodoxe, 1993, pp. 235-40 [in Romanian].
C. REVIEWS AND REVIEW-ESSAYS:
Review of Biancamaria Fontana, Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait, forthcoming in
Review of Politics (2017).
Review of Alan S. Kahan’s Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion, forthcoming in
Society (2017)
“Of Love and Politics.” Review of Michael Oakeshott’s Notebooks (1922-1986), in: Los
Angeles Review of Books (February 4, 2016), https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/of-love-
and-politics
Review of Francois Furet’s Lies, Passions, and Illusions, in: The Review of Politics, Vol.
77, No. 3, 2015, pp. 492-95.
Review of Tobias Bevc & Matthias Oppermann (eds.), Der souveräne Nationalstaat: Das
politische Denken Raymond Aron, in Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger,
Vol. 139, no. 3, 2014, pp. 420-21.
Review of Immanuel Wallerstein. The Modern World-System IV. Centrist Liberalism
Triumphant, 1789-1914, in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2014, pp. 532-
34.
“In Rousseau’s Shadow.” Review of Jeremy Jennings, Revolution and the Republic: A
History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century, in French Politics,
Culture, and Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 2014, pp. 143-50.
“The Center and the Margins,” Review of Joshua Cherniss’ A Mind and Its Time, Los
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Angeles Review of Books (March 26, 2014), https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/center-
margins/
“Rethinking Modernity, Religion, and Tradition: the Intellectual Dialogue between
Alexandre Stourdza and Joseph de Maistre.” Review-essay of Carolina Armenteros, The
French Idea of History: Joseph De Maistre and His Heirs, 1794-1854 and Stella
Ghervas, Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l'Europe de la Sainte-Alliance, in
History of European Ideas, Vol. 40: 2, 2014, pp. 277-89.
“Rediscovering the Virtues of Political Moderation.” Review of Peter Berkowitz’s
Constitutional Conservatism (November 2013).
http://www.libertylawsite.org/book-review/rediscovering-the-virtues-of-political-
moderation/
“A Tale of Two Moderates.” Review-essay of Emmanuelle Paulet-Grandguillot,
Libéralisme et démocratie. De Sismondi à Constant, à partir du Contrat social (1801-
1806), and K. Steven Vincent, Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism, in
History of European Ideas, Vol. 39, No.1, 2013, pp. 141-50.
Review of Sophia Rosenfeld’s Common Sense: A Political History, in H-France
(December 2012), http://www.h-france.net/vol12reviews/vol12no157craiutu.pdf
Review of Jan-Werner Müller, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-
Century Europe, Society, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2012, pp. 488-92.
Review of Doina P. Harsanyi, Lessons from America: Liberal French Nobles in Exile,
1793-1798, European History Quarterly, 42: 4, 2012, pp. 696-98.
“Tocqueville, Our Contemporary.” Review-essay of Alan S. Kahan, Tocqueville, Harvey
Mansfield, Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction and Oliver Zunz ed., Alexis de
Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels,
in Society, Vol. 48, No. 5, September-October 2011, pp. 434-37.
“The Elusive Tocqueville.” Lead review of Jon Elster’s Tocqueville. The First Modern
Scientist in a symposium published in Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2011,
pp. 361-65.
Review of Gustave de Beaumont, Marie ou l’esclavage aux États-Unis, 2 vols, ed. Marie-
Claude Schapira (Paris), Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 39, Nos. 3-4, Spring-
Summer 2011, pp. 354-55.
“Flirting with republicanism: Mme de Staël’s writings from the 1790s.” Review of Mme
de Staël, Œuvres Complètes, Serie III: Œuvres historiques, Tome I, Des circonstances
actuelles et autres essays politiques sous la Revolution, in History of European Ideas
Vol. 36. No. 3, September 2010, pp. 343-46.
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Review of Helena Rosenblatt, Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of
Religion, The Review of Politics, Vol. 72, No. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 150-52.
“Le Sphinx de la démocratie moderne.” Review of Lucien Jaume, Tocqueville, in
Commentaire (Paris), Vol. 33, No. 129, Spring 2010, pp. 229-30 [in French].
Review of Michael Curtis, Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental
Despotism in the Middle East and India, Society, Vol. 47, No. 3, May-June 2010, pp.
265-68.
“Painters of Ruins and Prophets of the Past: The School of Disenchantment and Its
Charms.” Review-essay of Joshua F. Dienstag, Pessimism: Philosophy. Ethic. Spirit and
Antoine Compagnon, Les Antimodernes. De Joseph de Maistre à Roland Barthes, in
European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 9, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 111-28.
“French Liberalism and the Aristocratic Sources of Liberty.” Review-essay of Lucien
Jaume, Tocqueville and Annelien de Dijn, French Political Thought from Montesquieu to
Tocqueville: Liberty in a Leveled Society?, in History of European Ideas, Vol. 35, No. 3,
September 2009, pp. 385-90.
Review of Hugh Brogan, Tocqueville: A Biography, in American Historical Review, Vol.
113, No. 4, October 2008, pp. 1254-55.
Review of World Order after Leninism, edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu, Marc Morjé
Howard, and Rudra Sil, in East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 22, No. 4, Fall
2008, pp. 955-58.
Review of Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor, Raf Geenens and Annelien De
Dijn eds., H-France Review, 8: 100, August 2008, http://www.h-
france.net/vol8reviews/vol8reviews.html
Review of The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-
1859). A Special Bicentennial Issue. Vol. XXVII, No. 2, 2006; H-France Review, Vol. 8,
(February 2008), No. 28, http://www.h-france.net/vol8reviews/vol8reviews.html#Feb08
Review of Matthew Maguire, The Conversion of Imagination: From Pascal through
Rousseau to Tocqueville, H-France, Vol. 7 (April 2007), No. 42. http://h-
france.net/vol7reviews/craiutu.html
Review of Pierre Rosanvallon’s Democracy Past and Future in Perspectives on Politics,
Vol. 4, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 764-66.
Review essay of Darío Roldán (ed). La pensée politique doctrinaire sous la Restauration.
Charles de Rémusat- Textes choisis and Darío Roldán. Charles de Rémusat: Certitudes et
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impasses du libéralisme doctrinaire, in History of Political Thought, Vol. XXVI, No. 3,
Fall 2005, pp. 557-59.
Review-essay of Robert T. Gannett, Tocqueville Unveiled and Michael Drolet,
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Social Reform, in History of Political Thought, Vol. XXVI,
No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 181-86.
Review of A. Melzer, J. Weinberger, and R. Zinman eds., The Public Intellectual:
Between Philosophy and Politics, in Society, Vol. 41, No. 4, May-June 2004, pp. 93-96.
Review essay of Cheryl Welch, Tocqueville; Oliver Zunz & Alan Kahan eds. The
Tocqueville Reader, in: Ethics, Volume 114, No. 1, October 2003, pp. 199-204.
Review of Sheldon S. Wolin’s Tocqueville, Between Two Worlds, in: Review of Politics,
Vol. 64, No. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 537-40.
Review of Duncan Light and David Phinnemore, eds., Post-Communist Romania:
Coming to Terms with Transition, in: Nationalities Papers, Vol. 29, No. 4, December
2001, pp. 718-20.
Review of Owen Bradley, A Modern Maistre, in: Modern Age Vol. 43, No. 2, Spring
2001, pp. 154-59.
Review-essay of Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Harvey C.
Mansfield and Delba Winthrop; Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, edited by
Sanford Kessler, trans. Stephen Grant, in: Society, Vol. 38, No. 6, September-October
2001, pp. 89-91.
“Is Self-Subversion the Elixir of Eternal Youth?” Review of Albert Hirschman, A
Propensity to Self-Subversion, in: Government and Opposition, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer
1997, pp. 442-47.
“The Dead or Living Hand of the Past?” Review of Tom Gallagher, Romania After
Ceausescu, in: Government & Opposition, Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring 1996, pp. 257-63.
D. OTHER ARTICLES (PRINT AND ONLINE):
“In Defense of Moderation,” The Daily Beast (January 13, 2017),
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/01/14/in-defense-of-moderation.html
“Rules for Moderates: Why We Need Moderates Today?, Penn Press blog (January 10,
2017) http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2017/01/rules-for-moderates-why-we-
need-moderation-today.html
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“Rethinking the Political Horizon of Liberalism,” http://www.libertylawsite.org/liberty-
forum/rethinking-the-political-horizon-of-liberalism/ (November 2015).
“Political Moderation and the Lost art of Trimming,” The Island (Tasmania, Australia)
No. 140, March 2015, pp. 38-43, http://islandmag.com/
“Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics,” Lead essay, Liberty Matters Forum, Online
Library of Liberty (May 2014), http://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/tocqueville-s-new-science-
of-politics; http://lf-oll.s3.amazonaws.com/titles//Tocqueville_NewScience.pdf
Forum Response to Isabel DiVanna’s review of A. Craiutu’s book A Virtue for
Courageous Minds, in French History, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2013): 146-48.
“Cateva reflectii pe marginea revizuirii Constitutiei,” [A Few Reflections on the Revision
of the Constitution] in Sorin Bocancea (ed.), Constitutia Romaniei. Opinii esentiale
pentru legea fundamentala, Iasi: Institutul European, 2013, pp. 57-63 [in Romanian]
“Un precursor al lui Tocqueville: Reflecţiile lui Victor Jacquemont despre America,” in
America văzută prin ochii europenilor, Secolul 21, No. 7-12, 2012 [in Romanian]
http://www.secolul21.ro/numere/america-prin-ochii-europenilor/precursor/index.htm
“Thinking with Tocqueville: Courage Not Ambition, Moderation Not Pessimism”
(December 2012), http://libertylawsite.org/2012/11/30/thinking-with-tocqueville-
courage-not-ambition-moderation-not-pessimism/
“Redeeming Liberty: Tocqueville on the Omnipresent Threat of Democratic Pantheism,”
(August 2012), http://libertylawsite.org/2012/08/15/redeeming-liberty-tocqueville-on-the-
omnipresent-threat-of-democratic-pantheism/
“Loving the Democratic State Moderately,” (June 2012), Response to Ralph Hancock,
“The State We’re In,” http://libertylawsite.org/liberty-forum/loving-the-democratic-state-
moderately/
“In Praise of Moderation,” Princeton University Press blog (May 4, 2012),
http://press.princeton.edu/blog/2012/05/04/in-praise-of-moderation-an-original-op-ed-by-
aurelian-craiutu/
“Romania: The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty (1989-2004),” EES News, East
European Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, September-
October 2004, pp. 5-7, 9.
“The Seduction of Pessimism: The Rhetoric of the Great Transformation in Eastern
Europe,” Polis (Bucharest, Romania), No. 4, 1997, pp. 56-79 [in Romanian].
“What Does it Mean to Be a Liberal Today?,” Polis (Bucharest, Romania), Vol. 4, No. 3,
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1997, pp. 5-21 [in Romanian].
“The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty: Notes on Democratic Consolidation in
Romania,” Polis (Bucharest, Romania), Vol. 3, No. 2, 1996, pp. 140-62 [in Romanian].
“Political Culture and the Post-communist Society: The Prerequisites of Democracy,”
Polis (Bucharest, Romania), Vol. 2, No. 3, 1994, pp. 97-119 [in Romanian].
“Democratic Institutions and Political Culture,” Polis (Bucharest, Romania), Vol. 2, No.
3, 1994, pp. 199-221 [in Romanian].
“Pacts and Negotiations in Romanian Politics,” Romanian Civilization (Iasi-Portland),
Vol. VI, No. 2, 1997.
E. ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN ROMANIAN NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS:
“Putem fi cu adevarat moderati?” Dilema Veche, No. 665, November 10-16, 2016, p. VIII
http://dilemaveche.ro/sectiune/tema-saptamanii/articol/putem-fi-cu-adevarat-moderati
“Mihai Sora: La centenar,” Dilema Veche, No. 663, p. III, November 3-9, 2016,
http://dilemaveche.ro/tag/mihai-sora-centenar
“O carte eveniment: Reinventarea traditiei,” 22, No. 1290 (December 9-December 14,
2014), p. 14, http://www.revista22.ro/articol-51272.html
“Dupa alegerile americane. La rece,” 22, No. 1185 (November 27-December 3, 2012),
http://www.revista22.ro/dupa-alegerile-americane-la-rece-19509.html
“Starea economiei - marea problemă a lui Obama,” 22, No. 1178 (October 9-15, 2012),
http://www.revista22.ro/starea-economiei--marea-problema-a-lui-obama-18453.html
“Republicanii inaintea sprintului final,” 22, No. 1173 (September 4–10, 2012)
http://www.revista22.ro/republicanii-naintea-sprintului-final-17543.html
“Din nou despre moderatie,” 22, No. 1149 (March 20-26, 2012)
http://www.revista22.ro/din-nou-despre-moderatie-13878.html
“America in focul alegerilor primare,” 22, No. 1140 (January 17-23, 2012)
http://www.revista22.ro/america-n-focul-alegerilor-primare-12938.html
“La despartirea de Mariana Şora,” 22, No. 1138 (January 4-10, 2012)
http://www.revista22.ro/la-despartirea-de-mariana-350ora-12729.html
“La aniversarǎ: Mihai Şora la 95 ani,” 22, No. 1131 (November 8-14, 2011)
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http://www.revista22.ro/mihai-350ora-la-aniversara-11893.html
“Rereading Matei Calinescu,” 22 (June 28, 2011), http://www.revista22.ro/recitindu-l-pe-
matei-c259linescu-10852.html
“America Between Red and Blue: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?” (co-authored with C.
Bradatan), 22 (November 23, 2010), http://www.revista22.ro/articol-9423.html
“Moderation, Liberalism, and Christian-democracy,” 22-plus (May 4, 2010).
http://www.revista22.ro/22-plus-modera355ia-liberalismul-351i-cre351tin-democra355ia-
8138.html
“Why Are the Constitution and its Revision Important?,” 22 (January 27, 2009)
http://www.revista22.ro/de-ce-sunt-importante-constitutia-si-revizuirea-ei-5495.html
“An Unprecedented Week in America’s History,” 22, (October 8, 2008).
“Gustave Thibon,” Dilema Veche, No. 207 (January 31-February 6, 2008), p. 11.
“Mihai Şora: A Philosopher of Dialogue and Hope,” (I & II), Idei in Dialog, V: 1
(January, 2008), pp. 35-47; Idei in Dialog, V: 2 (February 2008), pp. 36-38 [in
Romanian].
“Bridges over Time: Mariana Şora at Ninety,” 22, No. 899 (June 1-6, 2007).
http://www.revista22.ro/punti-peste-timp-mariana-sora-la-90-ani-3777.html
“Mihai Şora at Ninety,” and “A Dialogue with Mihai Şora,” 22, No. 870 (November 10-
16, 2006), “22 Plus,” pp. 1, 4-6. http://www.revista22.ro/sora-90-3212.html
“Mihai Şora’s School,” Observator Cultural, No. 88, November 2-8, 2006, “Supliment,”
p. VI.
“A Paradoxical Virtue: Moderation,” Dilema Veche, No. 135 (August 25, 2006).
“The Fascination of the Center,” 22, No. 851 (June 30-July 5, 2006).
http://www.revista22.ro/fascinatia-centrului-2850.html
“In Praise of Reasonable Compromise,” (I & II) Convorbiri Literare, February & March
2006.
“The Discrete Beauty of Gray,” 22, No 833, February 22-28, 2006.
http://www.revista22.ro/frumusetea-discreta-a-griului-2488.html
“Montesquieu: A Great Friend of Liberty,” 22, No. 815, October 18-24, 2005, pp. 13-14.
http://www.revista22.ro/montesquieu-un-mare-prieten-al-libertatii-2135.html
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“Become What You Already Are!”, 22, No. 806, September 6-12, 2005, pp. 16-17.
http://www.revista22.ro/devino-ceea-ce-esti-2018.html
“Raymond Aron: The Centenary of his Birth,” 22, No. 803, August 2005, p. 14.
http://www.revista22.ro/pe-marginea-unei-aniversari-raymond-aron-la-100-de-ani-de-la-
nastere-1920.html
“The Bicentenary of Tocqueville’s Birth,” 22, No. 797, June 14-20, 2005, p. 17.
http://www.revista22.ro/bicentenarul-nasterii-lui-tocqueville-1810.html
“The Dilemmas of Political Moderation,” 22, No. 794, May 24-30, 2005, p. 6.
http://www.revista22.ro/dilemele-moderatiei-politice-1753.html
“Again on the Two Americas,” Dilema, No. 44, November 12-18, 2004, p. 7.
http://www.revista22.ro/cele-doua-americi-849.html
“Guizot: The Extremism of Moderation” (Part II), Convorbiri Literare, No. 6 (July),
2004, pp. 103-105.
“Guizot: The Extremism of Moderation” (Part I), Convorbiri Literare, No. 6 (June),
2004, pp. 100-103.
“Tocqueville: Loving Democracy with Moderation” (Part II) Convorbiri Literare, No. 4
(April) 2004, pp. 114-117.
“Tocqueville: Loving Democracy with Moderation” (Part I) Convorbiri Literare, No. 3
(March), 2004.
“The Ordinary Virtues of Democracy,” Dilema, No. 21, June 4-10, 2004, p. 8.
“The Two Americas,” 22, No. 734, March 30-April 5, 2004, p. 16.
“Burke or the Conservatism of Moderation,” Convorbiri Literare, No. 11 (November)
2003, pp. 98-101.
“The Realism of Moderation: The Federalist Papers,” Convorbiri Literare, No. 7 (July)
2003.
“Montesquieu’s Analysis of Moderate Government,” Convorbiri Literare, No. 4 (April)
2003, pp. 105-107.
“Halifax and the Dilemmas of Moderation,” Convorbiri Literare, No. 2 (February) 2003,
pp. 93-96.
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“Prudence and the Art of Politics: Machiavelli and Guicciardini,” Convorbiri Literare,
No. 1 (January) 2003, pp. 98-101.
“The Paradox of Democracy,” Dilema, No. 494, August 30-September 5, 2002, p. 7.
“Aristotle: In Praise of the Middle Way,” Cuvantul, No. 300, 2002.
“Plato: The Dizziness of the Philosophy and the Vortex of Politics,” Cuvantul, No. 299,
2002.
“On Moderation, Political Judgment, and Practical Wisdom,” Cuvantul, No. 2 (298),
2002.
“The ‘Red‘ America,” Dilema, No. 458, December 7-13, 2001.
“Mihai Sora at Eighty-Five” (“Inimitabilul Sora”), Cuvantul, No. 11(295), November
2001, p. 16.
“Tocqueville as Student of Democratic Globalization,” in Secolul 21 (The Twenty-First
Century), No. 7-9 (436-438), 2001, pp. 87-93 [in Romanian].
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu (“Avem nevoie de institutii viabile, nu de primadone in
politica” 22, No. 36 (XII), September 4-10, 2001, pp. 16-18.
“In Praise of Moderation,” Dilema, No. 377, May 5-11, 2000, p. 8.
“Why Am I a Liberal?,” Guest lecture, the Institute of Liberal Studies, Bucharest, 22, No.
48, November 30-December 6, 1999, pp. II-III (Supliment "22 plus").
“Back to Tocqueville: A Response to Sorin Matei,” Interval, No. 3, May 1998.
“On Rhetoric and the Failure Complex,” 22, March 31-April 6, 1998, p. 13.
“A Proposal for the Minister of Education,” 22, No. 2, January 13-19, 1998, p. 5.
“Inevitable Liberalism,” 22, No. 14, 1997, April 8-14, p. 11.
“Why Is the Constitution Important?” Sfera politicii (Sphere of Politics), No. 44, 1996,
pp. 4-6 [in Romanian]. http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/pdf-1/Sfera_44.pdf
“On Pacts and Political Negotiations,” 22, No. 43, October 23-29, 1996, pp. 11-12.
“The Return of Political Culture,” 22, No. 39, September 25-October 1, 1996, pp. 12-13.
“On Political Style,” 22, No. 24, June 12-18, 1996, p. 3.
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“On Patriotism and Nationalism,” 22, No. 2, January 10-16, 1996, pp. 12-13.
“On Democracy and Its Limits,” 22, No. 40, October 4-10, 1995, p. 10.
“On Mihai Sora's Philosophy,” 22, No. 38, September 20-26, 1995, pp. 12-13.
“On the Strange Silence of Political Theory,” 22, No. 21, May 24-30, 1995, p. 14.
“From the Revolt of the Masses to the Treason of the Elites,” 22, No. 17, April 26-May 2,
1995, p. 14 [Review of Christopher Lasch's The Treason of the Elites].
“Rereading Tocqueville: Civic Conversation in America,” 22, No. 14, April 5-11, 1995,
p. 14 [Review of Robert Putnam’s article, “Bowling Alone”].
“The Key to Economic Performance,” 22, No. 14, April 6-12, 1994, p. 12 [Review of
John Williamson, Economic Performance].
“Toward an Institutionalist Approach to the Transition to a Market Society,” Sfera
politicii, No. 15, March 1994, http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
Review of Stephen Holmes’s The Anatomy of Liberalism, Sfera politicii, No. 16, April
1994, p. 14, http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/pdf-1/Sfera_16.pdf
“Political Philosophy and Its Avatars,” Viata Romaneasca, No. 12, 1993, pp. 6-16.
“Isaiah Berlin: In Praise of Pluralism,” Litere, Arte & Idei, No. 37(122), September 27,
1993, pp. 7-8.
“Tocqueville, Our Contemporary (I),” 22, No. 26, July 5-11, 1993, p. 13.
“Tocqueville, Our Contemporary (II),” 22, No. 27, July 12-18, 1993, p. 13
“Karl Popper: In Praise of the Open Society,” Litere, Arte & Idei, No. 25 (110), July 5,
1993, pp. 4-5.
“The Avatars of Liberalism (I),” Sfera politicii, No. 7, June-July 1993, pp. 26-27.
http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
“The Avatars of Liberalism (II),” Sfera politicii, No. 8, August 1993,
http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
“On Political Disappointment, Conservative Discourses and the Myth of Failure,” Sfera
politicii, No. 6, May 1993, pp. 14-15, http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
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“A Post-Communist Dilemma: Equality vs. Efficiency,” Sfera politicii, No. 5, 1993, p.
26-27, http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
“The Neo-classical Economy,” 22, No. 15, 1993, p. 15.
“The Mixed Economy: An Illusion (I)?,” 22, No. 13, 1993, p. 4.
“The Mixed Economy: An Illusion (II)?,” 22, No. 15, 1993, p. 12.
“Hayek's Political Economy of Liberty,” Sfera politicii, No. 1, December 1992, pp. 29-30,
http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/arhiva-77.php
“The Paradoxes of Liberalism,” Viata Romaneasca, Nos. 10-11, 1992, pp. 8-17.
“The Political Market and the Economic Policy,” 22, No. 28, 1992, p. 3.
“State and Civil Society: In Search of the Minimal State,” 22, No. 21, p. 12.
“The Elector and the Political Market,” 22, No. 4, January 31-February 7, 1992, p. 10.
“A Dialogue With ... Adam Smith,” Oeconomica, No. 1, 1991, pp. 93-96.
“De dignitate Europae,” Amfiteatru, No. 5, May 1990, p. 4.
“Civitas Humana,” Amfiteatru, No. 4, April 1990, p. 6.
F. UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
Wilhelm Röpke. L'actualité et l'originalité de son œuvre. Memoire de maîtrise, University
of Rennes, I, 1991, 74 pp. [in French].
6. TRANSLATIONS:
A. BOOKS
Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations, Bucharest: Humanitas Publishing House, 1994.
Translation from German into Romanian, with an introduction, notes, glossary, and index
by Aurelian Craiutu.
Gustave Thibon, From the Divine to the Political: Conversations with Christian
Chabanis, Bucharest: Anastasia Publishing House, 1997. Translation from French into
Romanian, with an introduction by Aurelian Craiutu.
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Gabriel Marcel, Dialogues with Pierre Boutang, Bucharest: Anastasia Publishing House,
1996. Translation from French by Aurelian Craiutu & Cristian Preda.
B. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND ESSAYS
Romano Guardini, “The Essence of the Work of Art,” Viata Romaneasca, No. 1, 1995,
pp. 61-68 [translation from German into Romanian].
“Gustave Thibon: Conversations with Christian Chabanis,” Viata Romaneasca, No. 5,
1993, pp. 113-24 [translation from French into Romanian].
Edmund Husserl, “Cartesian Meditations: II,” Viata Romaneasca, No. 6, 1990, pp. 75-94
[translation from German into Romanian].
Simone Weil, “Reflections on the Causes of Liberty and Social Oppresion,” Amfiteatru,
No. 6, June 1990, p. 10 [translation from French into Romanian].
Ernesto Sábato, Essays (selections), Bucovina Literara, Nos. 3-4, April 1990, pp. 14-15
[translation from Spanish into Romanian]
Eugène Ionesco, “Mircea Eliade,” Amfiteatru, No. 3, March 1990, p. 5 [translation from
French into Romanian].
Martin Buber, selections from I and Thou, Dialogue, Viata Romaneasca, No. 8, August
1988, pp. 56-65 [translation from German into Romanian].
Edmund Husserl, “Cartesian Meditations: I,” Viata Romaneasca, No. 10, 1987, pp. 60-79
[translation from German into Romanian].
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, ACADEMIC HONORS, AND AWARDS
National
Apgar Foundation Grant for the Tocqueville Program at Indiana University (2016-17).
Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellowship, James Madison Program in American
Ideals and Institutions & Department of Politics, Princeton University (2014-15).
Earhart Foundation Research Grants (2012; 2005; 2004).
Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
(2008-2009).
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American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (2008-2009).
Veritas Foundation grant for the Tocqueville program at Indiana University (May 2009).
Jack Miller Center Grant for establishing a Tocqueville Program at Indiana University,
Bloomington (2009).
Yale University Beinecke Library’s Research Fellowship (John and Rose Jackson Fellow,
2006).
Research Prize, Law & Economics Center, Program on Politics and Economics, George
Mason University (2006).
Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State
University (August-December 2005).
CHOICE Magazine 2004 Outstanding Academic Title Award (2004)
John N. Olin Fellowship, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago (2000,
declined).
Harper-Schmidt Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The College of the University of Chicago
(2000, declined).
Liberty Fund Post-Doctoral Scholarship (2000, declined).
Gerst Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Duke University (1999-2000).
American Political Science Association:
American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in
political philosophy in the US and Canada (2000).
Indiana University:
Ostrom Fellowship for the Tocqueville Program at Indiana University, College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences, Indiana University (2016-17).
Russian and East European Institute Mellon travel award (2015, 2005).
Institute for European Studies (formerly WEST Institute) Mellon travel award (2015,
2014, 2010, 2003).
College Arts and Humanities Institute (one-semester) research fellowship (2013,
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declined).
Trustees Teaching Award (2013).
College Arts and Humanities Institute workshop/conference grant, “Capitalism, Its
Defenders and Its Critics?” lecture series (2012-13).
Institute for Advanced Study conference grant, “The Anatomy of Marginality” (2010)
Office of Vice President for Research grant for research (2010)
WEST Institute course development grant (Summer 2007).
European Union Center of Excellence travel grant (April 2006)
New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities Exploration Traveling Fellowship (2005).
College Arts & Humanities Institute research grant, Indiana University (2005).
Russian and East European Institute, Mellon Grant-in-Aid (2005).
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2004).
Student Choice Teaching Award on the basis of “excellent teaching and general rapport
with students,” given by the Student Alumni Association, Indiana University (2004).
College of Arts and Science Summer Faculty Fellowship (2004).
College of Arts and Humanities Institute conference grant & Bar-Koon Fund conference
grant (Department of French & Italian)
Indiana University, RUGS Summer faculty fellowship (2003; 2004).
Russian and East European Institute course development grant (Summer 2003).
Princeton University:
Mellon Research Fellowship, Princeton University (1998).
University Center for Human Values Prize Fellowship, Princeton University (1996-97).
Center for European Studies Research Grant, Princeton University (1996).
Center for International Studies Research Grant, Princeton University (1995-96).
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Graduate Studies Fellowship, Princeton University (1994-98).
International:
Honorary Diploma, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration,
Bucharest, Romania (2006).
Soros Foundation Research Grant, Bucharest, Romania (1994).
Fulbright Scholarship, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1993-94).
French Government Fellowship, EHESS, Paris (1993-94, declined).
Collegium Budapest Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary (1993, declined).
Salzburg Seminar Fellowship, Salzburg, Austria (1993).
French Government Fellowship, University of Rennes I, France (1990-91).
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND CONFERENCES
Isaiah Berlin on Marx and Marxism.” Paper delivered at the international conference
“The Life and Legacy of Isaiah Berlin,” Yale University, February 2-3, 2017.
“Laboulaye et les Etats-Unis.” Paper (in French) delivered at the international conference
“La pensée juridique et politique d’Edouard Laboulaye”, Université Cergy-Pontoise,
Paris, December 9, 2016.
“Liberalism and the struggle for political moderation in post-revolutionary Europe.”
Keynote address delivered at the conference on “Early (Dutch) liberalism,
transformations of republicanism in a constitutional context,” University of Groningen,
November 24, 2016, http://www.seminarliberalism.nl/
“The Archipelago of Moderation.” Keynote lecture, International conference ‘Third
Ways. The Politics of Moderation,’ University of Amsterdam, November 22, 2016.
“Moderation and Meekness: Two Virtues for Courageous Minds” Paper presented at the
conference Intellectual Humility and Public Deliberation, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, November 11-12, 2016, http://humilityandconviction.uconn.edu/events-
2/workshops/fall-2016-workshops/interdisciplinary-workshop-intellectual-humility-and-
public-deliberation/ihpd-workshop-schedule/
Why Should We Still Read Tocqueville?” Conference on “American Political Thought
and the History of Political Thought,” University of Houston, March 4-5, 2016.
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“Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited: A Few Lessons for Contemporary
Social Scientists.” International conference, Tocqueville’s Experiential Concept of a
‘New Science of Politics,’ Halle (Germany), October 9-10, 2014.
“A New Light for the Old World: The Influence of the American Constitution in France
in 1789.” Invited Constitution Day Lecture, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS,
September 18, 2014.
http://lawvideo.law.olemiss.edu/~poindexterbarnes/4th/Constitution-Day2-2014.mov
“Two Critical Spectators: José Ortega y Gasset and Raymond Aron” (with Brendon
Westler). Lunch seminar, James Madison Program, Princeton University, October 2,
2014. A version of this paper was also presented (by Brendon Westler) at the 2014
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August
28-31, 2014.
“Rereading Raymond Aron,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, April 11, 2014.
“Moderation: A Historical Perspective,” Duke University Political Theory Workshop
December 9, 2013.
“Rereading Raymond Aron,” Research Triangle Intellectual History Seminar and Duke
Center for European Studies, December 8, 2013.
“Moderation and the Group of Coppet,” Yale University Political Theory Workshop,
October 9, 2013.
“A Nineteenth-century Classic: François Guizot’s History of Civilization in Europe,”
Universal history conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 26-27, 2013.
“The Radicalism of Moderation: The Case of the French Monarchiens,” James Madison
Center, Princeton University, November 9, 2012; and the Political Theory Workshop,
Columbia University, November 8, 2012.
“The American Revolution in France.” Invited paper delivered at the conference
Three Revolutions? Remaking Political Society in Britain & America, 1640-1865, Yale
University, June 28-30, 2012.
“Moderation and Liberalism: A Historical Perspective.” Invited paper delivered at the
international conference Towards a Conceptual History of Central and Eastern Europe in
Comparative Perspective: Cultures, Ideologies, Identities, Politics, Timisoara, Romania,
April 25-27, 2012.
“On Moderation.” Program for the Study of the History of Political Thought, University
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Center for Human Values, Princeton University, November 19, 2010.
“Thoughts on Marginality.” Opening presentation (co-authored with Costica Bradatan),
“The Anatomy of Marginality” conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 15,
2010.
“Tocqueville on America after 1840.” Paper delivered at the international conference
“Alexis de Tocqueville: New Perspectives,” Indiana University, Bloomington, March 4-5,
2010.
Roundtable, College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University, on Aurelian
Craiutu and Jeffrey Isaac eds. America Through European Eyes: British and French
Reflections on the New World From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, February 11,
2010.
Book Roundtable Discussion of Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Writings,
Clough Center, Boston College (November 9, 2009, with Harvey Mansfield, Cheryl
Welch, R. Shep Melnick), http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/craiutu/
“Tocqueville’s Third Democracy”, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Toronto, Canada, September 2-6, 2009. Roundtable on A. Craiutu and J.
Jennings eds., Tocqueville on America after 1840.
“American Political Thought, Tocqueville, and Eastern Europe,” Paper delivered at the
conference “The Post-Communist Era: Challenges and Opportunities,” Princeton
University, May 2009.
“Moderation and the Group of Coppet.” Paper prepared for the international conference
“Germaine de Staël Today: Currents and Cross-currents,” St. Louis, May 9-11, 2009.
“The Elusive Center: Moderation in the Writings of the Coppet Group (Jacques Necker,
Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant),” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ,
March 12, 2009.
“Raymond Aron and the French Tradition of Political Moderation.” Invited paper
presented at the international conference “In Search of a Lost Liberalism,” Institute of
Philosophy, The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, December 11-13, 2008.
“In Search of the Elusive Revolution: Raymond Aron on the Significance of the 1968
Moment in France.” Invited paper presented at the international conference, Promises of
1968: Crisis, Illusion, and Utopia” November 6-7, 2008, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington D.C.
“The Politics of (Un)Happiness: Finding Happiness in Exceptional Circumstances.”
Invited paper presented at the conference “The Politics of Well-Being,” Center for the
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Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, Atlanta, April 11-13, 2008.
“Liberalism and Moderation: The View from France.” Paper presented at the conference
“In Search for Common Liberalism,” UCLA and CATO Institute, March 14-15, Los
Angles, CA, 2008.
“Searching for the Middle: Power and Constitutionalism in the Writings of the French
Monarchiens.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, August 29-September 3, 2006.
Chair and Discussant, “Politics and Anthropology in Modern Political Philosophy” Panel,
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 29-
September 3, 2006.
“The Monarchiens’ Defense of Moderate Government.” Paper presented at the Annual
Conference of the Society for French Historical Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana
Champaign, April 20-22, 2006.
“Moderation, Political Reason, and the Spirit of the Legislator: Lessons from France.”
Invited paper presented at the international conference “Statesmen and Demagogues:
Democratic Leadership in Political Thought,” Yale University, March 31-April 1, 2006.
“Democracy and Philosophy in Eastern Europe: A Tocquevillian Perspective.” Invited
paper presented at the 5th Annual International Young Researchers Conference, Thinking
in/after Utopia: East-European and Russian Philosophy Before and After the Collapse of
Communism, Havighurst Center, Miami University, Ohio, October 27-29, 2005.
“Raymond Aron’s Response to Irresponsible Metaphysics.” Invited paper presented at the
international conference “Raymond Aron,” Instituto da defesa nacional, Lisbon, Portugal,
April 14-15, 2005.
“What Would Tocqueville Have Said If He Visited America Today?” Paper presented at
the conference “Celebrating the Bicentenary of Tocqueville’s Birth,” Workshop in
Political Theory and Policy Analysis & Department of Political Science, Indiana
University, April 2005.
“A Precursor of Tocqueville: Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832).” Paper presented at the
international conference “America Seen through Foreign Eyes,” Indiana University,
Bloomington, March 24-26, 2005.
Response to Lucien Jaume’s “The Theme of a New Aristocracy in Nineteenth-Century
France,” 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Stanford
University, March 17-19, 2005.
“Democracy, Romanian Style.” Invited lecture, John F. Kennedy School of Government,
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Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Harvard University,
November 17, 2004.
“The Third Democracy.” Invited lecture, Council on Comparative Studies & The
Washington DC Political Theory Colloquium, American University, November 18, 2004.
“Faces of Moderation: Trimming.” Invited paper presented at the Political Philosophy
Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 22, 2004.
“An Uneasy Relationship: Democracy and Representative Government in the Writings of
Nineteenth-Century Liberals.” Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004.
“Romania: The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty (1989-2004).” Invited lecture,
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, East European Studies, Washington,
D.C., June 2004 (a summary of this lecture was published in East European Studies
News, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, September-October 2004,
Meeting Report 298, pp. 5-7, 9).
“The Revival of the Classics of the Nineteenth Century: F. Guizot.” Invited paper
delivered at the international conference, Liberalism's Return: French Social Thought
Since 1968, organized by Center for French and Francophone Studies, and the
Department of History, Columbia University, and Maison Française, New York, April
16-17, 2004.
“Raymond Aron.” Invited paper, Committee on Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy,
University of Maryland, College Park, December 2003.
“Faces of Moderation: Raymond Aron’s Committed Observer.” Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-
September 3, 2003.
“The Third Democracy: Tocqueville’s Views of America After 1840,” (co-authored with
Jeremy Jennings). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2003.
“The Sociological Method of the French Doctrinaires.” Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Milwaukee, April 2003.
“Loving Liberty and Democracy Well: Reflections on Raymond Aron.” Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April
2003.
“Then and Now: Post-1789 France and Post-1989 Eastern Europe.” Invited paper
presented at the Havighurst Center for Post-Soviet-Studies Research Colloquium, Miami
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University, Ohio, November 2002.
“Guizot’s juste milieu liberalism revisited.” Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting
of the Western Society for French History, Baltimore, October 2-5, 2002.
“French Liberalism: An Oxymoron?” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 25-28, 2002.
“Rethinking Political Power.” Paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August 31-September
3, 2001.
Discussant, Panel “Democracy, Politics, and Humanity in Contemporary French Liberal
Thought,” 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, California, August 31-September 3, 2001.
“Rethinking Publicity: Guizot's Theory of Representative Government.” Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 19-
22, 2001, Chicago.
“Constant and Guizot on Sovereignty.” Invited paper presented at the international
conference, "Benjamin Constant (1767-1830): Political Theory and Literature."
University of California Center for Ideas and Society & Institute Benjamin Constant,
Lausanne (Switzerland), Riverside, California, February 16-17, 2001.
“What is French Liberalism?” Paper presented at the Iowa Conference of Political
Scientists, October 28, 2000, Grinnell College (paper presenter and chair of the panel).
Chair, Panel: “Enlightenment and Civil Society,” 2000 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.
Chair, First Annual Conference, Session: “The History of Opulence,” Gerst Program in
Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, Duke University, April 28-29, 2000.
Discussant, Panel: “Liberalism and the Strong State,” 1999 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1-4, 1999.
“Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Strange Liberalism of the French Doctrinaires.”
Paper presented at the 1999 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association,
Providence, April 30-May 1, 1999.
“Tocqueville and the Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (Guizot, Royer-
Collard, and Rémusat).” Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
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“Romania: 1989-1998.” Invited paper presented at the international conference,
"Democratization in the Balkans," Bristol University, Bristol, England, May 1997.
“Ethnic Hungarians and Minority Rights in Romania.” Paper presented at the 1997
Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York, April 26,
1997.
“The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty.” Paper presented at the 1996 Annual
Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston,
November 14-17, 1996.
“On Political Pacts and Negotiations.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the
Society of Romanian Studies, Boston College, November 12, 1996.
“Perversity, Futility, and Jeopardy Revisited: Notes on the Rhetoric of the Great
Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.” Paper presented at the 1996 Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 28-
September 1, 1996.
“Rereading Vaclav Havel and Etienne de la Boétie: From Voluntary Servitude to the
Power of the Powerless.” Paper presented at the 1995 Annual Meeting of the
Northeastern Political Science Association, Newark, November 9-11, 1995.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES & COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED
Conference Director, “Liberty and Modernity in Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain,”
Liberty Fund colloquium, New Paltz, NY, October 13-16, 2016.
Conference Director, “Prudence and Practical Wisdom in the Writings of Baltasar
Gracián and Arthur Schopenhauer,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, October
15-18, 2015.
Conference Director, “Political Liberty in Revolutionary Times: Madame de Staël and
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Causes and the Aftermath of the French Revolution,”
Liberty Fund colloquium, La Jolla, CA, January 17-20, 2013.
Conference Director, “Tocqueville on Liberty and the Problems of Democracy,” Liberty
Fund colloquium, Chicago, April 14-17, 2011.
Co-organizer (with C. Bradatan) of the Workshop “The Anatomy of Marginality.”
Indiana University, Bloomington, October 15, 2010.
Organizer of the international conference, “Alexis de Tocqueville: New Perspectives,”
Indiana University, Bloomington, March 4-5, 2010.
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Conference Director, “Political Religions and Freedom in Modern Society,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Atlanta, GA, February 12-15, 2009.
Conference Director, “Liberty, Authority, and Constitutionalism in the Writings of
Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Chicago, August 3-
6, 2006.
Organizer of the international conference, “America Seen Through Foreign Eyes,”
Indiana University, Bloomington, March 24-27, 2005.
Organizer of the conference “Celebrating the Bicentenary of Tocqueville’s Birth,”
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington,
April 8-9, 2005.
Conference Director, “Political Liberty in the Writings of Madame de Staël,” Liberty
Fund colloquium, Miami, FL, December 9-12, 2004.
Conference Director, “Political Liberty in the Writing of Raymond Aron,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Seattle, WA, June 24-27, 2004.
Conference Director, “Liberty, Patriotism, and Cosmopolitanism,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Alexandria, VA, March 13-16, 2003.
Conference Director, “Tocqueville and Guizot on Liberty and Democracy,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Santa Fe, NM, October 17-20, 2002.
Conference Director, “Liberty and Power in the Works of Francois Guizot,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Newport, RI, November 9-12, 2000.
INVITED PAPERS, TALKS, COLLOQUIA, AND LECTURES
Book panel and discussion on Aurelian Craiutu, Faces of Moderation, George Mason
University, F.A. Hayek Program, Fairfax, VA, January 26, 2017.
“In Praise of a Forgotten Virtue: Moderation in the Twenty-First Century.” Public lecture,
SPUI 25, Amsterdam, November 23, 2016,
http://www.spui25.nl/en/events/program/program/content/folder/11/moderation-in-the-
twenty-first-century.html
“Moderation and Trimming: Michael Oakeshott’s Political Skepticism.” Invited paper,
Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science & Center for
Constitutionalism, University of Notre Dame, November 4, 2016.
“The Constitutional Convention and the Framework for Liberty,” Liberty Fund
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colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, September 15-18, 2016.
Invited participant in a book manuscript workshop on “Public Administration and the
Classical Liberal Tradition: Modern Political Economy Foundations” (by P. Boettke, P.
Aligica, and V. Tarko), George Mason University, May 5-6, 2016.
‘“The Lucidity of Moderation: Raymond Aron as a ‘Committed Observer’”, Intellectual
History Colloquium and Political Theory Workshop (Department of Government),
Harvard University, April 14, 2016.
“Radical Moderation and the Search for Moral Clarity: Adam Michnik’s Lesson,” the
West Institute, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, March 23,
2016.
“Tolstoy’s War and Peace.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, St. Petersburg, FL, February 11-
14, 2016.
“Should We Still Be Reading Tocqueville?” WIMPS, Lilly School of Philanthropy,
IUPUI, Indianapolis (February 5, 2016).
“Moderation and the Lost Art of Trimming: Michael Oakeshott’s Politics of Skepticism,”
Political Theory Workshop, Georgetown University, September 24, 2015.
“On Happiness in Unusual Circumstances: N. Steinhardt’s Uplifting Lesson,” University
of Helsinki, Department of Philosophy, May 5, 2015 (lecture co-sponsored by the
Romanian Embassy in Finland and the Romanian Cultural Institute, Stockholm).
“Shaftesbury and .Mandeville.” Liberty Fund colloquium, Toronto, Canada, April 23-26,
2015.
“Tocquevillle’s Democracy in America.” Roundtable, Villanova University, Ryan Center,
March 27, 2015.
“Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics Revisited.” Political Theory Workshop,
University of Pennsylvania, February 26, 2015.
“Moderation and Conservatism.” An America's Founding and Future Lecture, Princeton
University. A Panel Discussion featuring Sam Tanenhaus, Journalist and Author, and
Peter Berkowitz, Stanford University, Moderated by Aurelian Craiutu, Visiting Fellow,
James Madison Program (AY 2014-15), February 24, 2015.
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/calendar/flash/Moderation_and_Conservatism'20
15S.html
“Markets without Limits.” Discussion leader, book manuscript workshop, Mercatus
Center, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, August 20-22, 2014.
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“Democracy in America, Democracy in Romania.” Keynote lecture, Petre Andrei
University, Iasi, Romania, July 4, 2014.
http://7est.ro/actualitate/educatie/item/19576-ziua-nationala-a-statelor-unite-ale-americii-
sarbatorita-la-upa-din-iasi.html
“America Seen Through European Eyes.” Invited lecture, Stefan cel Mare University,
Suceava, Romania, June 25, 2014.
Invited panelist, “The Vote: When Does Suffrage Become Universal?” Panel organized
by the Leon Jaworski Public Program, the American Bar Association, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., May 1, 2014;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_G7P2axOE
“Liberty, Modernity, and the Fall of the Weimar Republic,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Indianapolis, IN, March 6-9, 2014.
“The Seventeenth-Century French Moralists on Self-Love,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Boulder, CO, February 13-16, 2014.
“Tocqueville and the Future of America.” Invited lecture, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, November 20, 2013.
“Liberty and Liberalism in Mexico,” Liberty Fund colloquium, La Jolla, CA, August 22-
25, 2013.
“Liberty, Politics, and Skepticism in Cicero and Montaigne,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Montreal, June 13-16, 2013.
“Liberty, Nature, and the Question of Human Dignity,” Liberty Fund colloquium, La
Jolla, CA, April 11-14, 2013.
“In Praise of a Forgotten Virtue: Moderation in the Twenty-First Century.” Invited paper,
American University, Washington, D.C., February 22, 2013.
Roundtable discussion on A Virtue for Courageous Minds, The Poynter Center, Indiana
University, Bloomington, January 31, 2013.
“Tocqueville on Greatness in Modern Society.” Invited lecture, Emory University,
November 27, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y216lMy26KQ
“In Praise of a Forgotten Virtue: Moderation in the Twenty-First Century.” Invited
lecture, November 14, 2012. Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute for the Humanities,
Mississippi State University, Sparkville, MS.
http://blip.tv/ored-rcu-plctv/in-praise-of-a-forgotten-virtue-moderation-in-the-twenty-
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first-century-6441362
“Constitutional Liberty in France: The Influence of the American Constitution on the
Constituent Assembly in 1789.” Constitution Day Lecture, Tufts University, September
10, 2012.
“On Moderation in Today’s Politics.” Invited lecture, Mini-University, Indiana
University, June 20, 2012.
“Tocqueville on the Sources of Greatness in Democratic Societies.” Invited lecture,
Villanova University, March 22, 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rc9qkxednI
“America through European Eyes.” Invited lecture, Program on European Studies,
Brigham Young University, March 12, 2012,
http://kennedy.byu.edu/archive/lecture.php?id=2538
“The Thirty-Year War,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, November 3-6, 2011.
“Encyclopedic Liberty: Individual, Society and State in Diderot’s Dictionary,” Liberty
Fund colloquium, San Francisco, CA, January 6-9, 2011.
“Liberty and the American Founding,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Williamsburg, VA,
September 9-12, 2010.
“Art, Morality, and Freedom in Kames and Burke,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Seattle,
WA, August 12-15, 2010.
“Le centre introuvable de Mme de Staël” and “Le pouvoir neutre comme pouvoir
modérateur dans les écrits de Benjamin Constant,” Institut Michel Villey, Université Paris
II Panthéon-Assas, May 28, 2010 (in French).
La “troisième” Démocratie en Amérique? Université de Paris I, Sorbonne (class of Prof.
Dominique Barjot), May 26, 2010 (in French).
“ Souveraineté complèxe et balance des pouvoirs dans la pensée politique du groupe de
Coppet.” Paper presented at the colloquium, “Généalogie de l’Europe politique,”
CEVIPOF, Paris, May 21, 2010 (in French).
“The ‘Radical Moderates’ of 1789: The French Monarchiens,” EPIC colloquium,
Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 12, 2010.
Roundtable on the revisions of the Romanian Constitution, Boston College, The Clough
Center for Constitutionalism, November 9, 2009.
“The Conquest of Americas” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, October 29-
November 1, 2009.
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“Montesquieu and the Science of the Legislator.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Denver,
September 17-20, 2009.
Participant, roundtable on Diego Von Vacano’s The Art of Power, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, May 22, 2009.
Guest speaker, roundtable discussion on Tocqueville on America after 1840 (Cambridge,
2009), James Madison Program, Princeton University, May 15, 2009.
“Moderation and the Group of Coppet,” The New York Area Group in European
Intellectual and Cultural History, CUNY, Hunter College, April 30, 2009.
“Did Tocqueville Change His Mind About America after 1840”, Emerging Trends
Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, April 17, 2009.
“Tocqueville’’s Journey I,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Chicago, IL, January 8-11, 2009.
“Conceptions of Rationality,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Atlanta, GA, November 13-16,
2008.
“Finding Happiness in Exceptional Circumstances.” Invited lecture, Mini-University,
Indiana University, Bloomington, June 17, 2008.
“Religion, Freedom, and Citizenship in Spinoza's "Theological Political Treatise,”
Liberty Fund colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, June 12-15, 2008.
“The Political Thought of Voltaire and Samuel Johnson.” Liberty Fund Colloquium,
Cleveland, OH, April 3-6, 2008.
“Dilemmas of Democracy.” Invited lecture, Butler University, February 27, 2008.
“The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today.” Liberty Fund Colloquium,
Indianapolis, IN, March 20-23, 2008.
“Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Chevalier.” Liberty Fund Colloquium, West Sussex,
United Kingdom, February 21-24, 2008.
“Walter Lippmann, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and the Crisis of Modernity,” Liberty Fund
Colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, November 8-11, 2007.
“Slavophiles and Westernizers in 19th-century Russia,” Liberty Fund Colloquium,
Washington DC, October 24-27, 2007.
Lecturer, “American through foreign eyes,” Mini-University, Indiana University,
Bloomington, June 19, 2007.
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“Alexander Herzen,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Indianapolis, June 7-10, 2007.
“Tocqueville and Eastern Europe Today.” Invited lecture, Havighurst Center, Miami
University, Ohio, April 26, 2007.
“Romania: 1989-2007.” Invited lecture, Roundtable: “Romania and the EU,” Center for
European Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 13, 2007.
Panel Chair, “The Hour of Romania,” International conference, Indiana University,
Bloomington, March 24-27, 2007.
“Trimming and Political Moderation.” Invited lecture, Political Theory Workshop,
Washington University, St. Louis, September 15, 2006.
Manuscript conference on Karol Soltan’s “The Ideal Citizen,” Mercatus Center, George
Mason University, Arlington, August 17-20, 2006.
“Is Tocqueville the ‘Unsurpassable Horizon of Our Times?” Invited lecture, Social
Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, August 25, 2006.
Liberty Fund colloquium, “Liberty, Authority, and Constitutionalism in the Writings of
Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant,” Chicago, August 3-6, 2006
“Moderating Democracy: Tocqueville’s New Science of Politics.” Invited lecture, the
2006-2007 Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program Summer Conference, Big
Sky, Montana, July 24-30, 2006.
“Le Centre introuvable.” Invited lecture and book launch, French Institute, Bucharest,
Romania, June 12, 2006 [in French].
“Moderation and Extremism.” Invited lecture, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest,
June 7, 2006 [in Romanian].
Participant, Roundtable on American Political Science, National School of Political
Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, May 26, 2006.
“Tocqueville and Guizot.” Invited lecture, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, March 15,
2006 [in French].
“Guizot’s Sociological Method.” CEVIPOF, Institute of Political Studies, Paris, March
10, 2006 [in French].
“Montesquieu’s Theory of Moderate Government.” EPIC series, Department of Political
Science, Indiana University, February 2006.
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“Greatness and Modern Politics: Tocqueville’s Paradoxical Moderation.” Invited lecture
co-sponsored by the Social Philosophy and Policy Center and La Maison Française,
Bowling Green State University, December 2005.
“German Nationalism,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Washington DC, September 2005.
Participant, Program on Politics and Economics Conference, George Mason University
Law School, June 2005.
“Clausewitz,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Philadelphia, June 2005.
Invited lecture, “The Dilemmas of Political Moderation,” New Europe College,
Bucharest, Romania, May 2005.
Invited participant on the roundtable, “Romania after Iliescu: Prospects for Democratic
Consolidation,” East European Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC,
November 2004.
“Liberty and International Politics: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives,” Liberty
Fund colloquium, Clearwater, FL, November 2004.
“American Freedom in the Eyes of Visitors and Newcomers,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Philadelphia, PA, May 20-23, 2004.
“Women and Liberty in an Age of Democratic Revolution,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, April 22-25, 2004.
“On Political Moderation,” Invited lecture, Department of Political Science, University of
Bucharest, March 2004 [in Romanian].
“The Third Democracy: Tocqueville’s Views of America After 1840.” Invited lecture,
The National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, March
2004.
“The Virtues of Moderation,” Invited lecture, Department of Philosophy, University of
Bucharest, March 2004.
Chair, Section II “Public Opinion in east-Central Europe,” Public Opinion about
European Union in Central Europe, international conference, Indiana University, April 3,
2004.
“Tocqueville Roundtable,” Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana
University, November, 25-26, 2003.
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“Liberty in Dante Alighieri,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Durham, NC, November 20-23,
2003.
“Pascal and La Rochefoucauld,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario,
October 24-27, 2003.
“English Responses to the French Revolution,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Montreal,
Quebec, October 9-12, 2003.
“Nature, Reason, and the Crisis of Philosophical Liberalism,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Savannah, GA, June 2003.
“Nineteenth-century German Liberalism,” Liberty Fund colloquium, San Francisco, May
8-11, 2003.
Liberty Fund Summer Institute, Jesus College, Oxford, UK, July 30-August 16, 2002.
“Dante and Milton on Liberty,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Flat Rock, NC, June 2002.
“Liberty and Constitutionalism in an Age of Revolution: Edmund Burke and Joseph de
Maistre,” Liberty Fund colloquium, University Club of Chicago, May 2-5, 2002.
“Liberty and Tyranny in the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1848,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Santa Monica, CA, February 7-10, 2002.
“Rethinking Political Power.” Paper presented at the Workshop in Political Theory and
Policy Analysis, Indiana University, December 3, 2001 (Fall 2001 Colloquium Series).
“Madison, Constant and Mill on Representative Government,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Tucson, AR, November 8-11, 2001.
“Liberty in Ostrom’s The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerabilities of Democracies:
A response to Tocqueville’s Challenge,” Liberty Fund colloquium, St. Paul, MN, October
4-7, 2001.
“Shakespeare and Hume: English Liberty in the Cradle,” Big Sky, July 17-August 4,
2002, Big Sky, Montana (Liberty Fund Summer Institute).
“The Theme of Liberty in Wilhelm Röpke’s A Humane Economy,” Liberty Fund
colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, May 31-June 2, 2001.
“The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln,” New Haven, Liberty Fund colloquium, Connecticut,
March 8-11, 2001.
“Democracy in America Revisited: Tocqueville and the French Doctrinaires,” invited
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lecture, Indiana University, November, 2000; University of Pittsburgh, December, 2000;
University of Chicago, January 2001; University of Notre Dame, January 2001;
Dartmouth College, January 2001.
“Tocqueville on the Foundations of Free Society, Part II,” Liberty Fund Colloquium,
Alexandria, Virginia, September 14-17, 2000.
“Liberty in the Works of Bertrand de Jouvenel,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Princeton, NJ,
July 12-15, 2000.
“The Pathology of Philosophy in the Works of David Hume,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Chicago, May 20-23, 2000.
“An Unexplored Relationship: Tocqueville and Guizot,” Invited lecture, Emory
University, April 2000; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, March 2000.
“Discovering ‘America’ in Europe,” Wesleyan University, March 2000; Barnard College,
New York City, February 2000.
“For Love of Country: Reflections on Republican Patriotism,’ Invited lecture, Carleton
College, Northfield, Minnesota, January 2000.
“Political Theory and Post-1989 Eastern Europe,” Invited lecture, George Washington
University, Washington, D.C., December 1999.
“Liberty and History in Pierre Manent's The City of Man,” Liberty Fund colloquium,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 1999.
“The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty,” Invited lecture, University of Florida,
Gainesville, November 1999.
“Liberty and Authority in J.S. Mill's Essays,” Liberty Fund colloquium, New Orleans,
October 1999.
“Francois Guizot,” Invited paper, Political Philosophy Colloquium, Department of
Political Science, Duke University, October 1999.
“The Future of Liberal Education,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Aspen, CO, July 1999.
“Patriotism and Nationalism,” Guest lecture, New Europe College (Institute for
Advanced Study), Bucharest, June 1999.
“What Is Liberalism?” Guest lecture, Institute of Liberal Studies, Bucharest, June 1999.
“The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Chicago, May 1999.
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“The French Revolution and the Terror of 1793,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Alexandria,
Virginia, February 1999.
“Liberty and Power in the Legend of the Great Inquisitor,” Invited lecture, Colorado
College, January 1999.
“The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires,” Invited lecture, Nuffield College,
Oxford University, January 1999; St. John’s College, Oxford, February 1999.
“In Praise of Moderation,” Invited lecture, University of California, Riverside, November
1998.
“Challenges to Liberal Education,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Chicago, August 1998.
“Tocqueville and the French Doctrinaires.” Invited lecture, Yale University, March 1998.
“The Rhetoric of Great Transformation in Eastern Europe.” Invited lecture, New Europe
College (Institute for Advanced Study), Bucharest, June 1997.
“Dialogue and Liberty: On Mihai Sora’s Political Philosophy.” Guest lecture, New
Europe College (Institute for Advanced Study), Bucharest, June 1996.
Liberty & Society Academic Seminar, Institute for Humane Studies, Bryn Mawr College,
June 1995.
Guest speaker, Pew Seminar in Eastern European Liberalization, "The Inactive Civil
Society and Political Extremism in Post-Communist Romania," Center of International
Studies, Princeton University, April 20, 1995.
“Liberals and Communitarians in Eastern Europe,” Invited lecture, Department of
Politics, Princeton University, April 1994.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & SKILLS
Associate Editor, European Journal of Political Theory (Sage, UK, 2004-2014).
Member of the Editorial/Advisory Board, History of European Ideas (UK, 2013-present),
European Journal of Political Theory (2014-present), Critical Review (USA, 2004-
present), Janus Head (USA, 2003-2009); Studia Politica (Romania, 2005-2012);
Perspective politice (Romania, 2011-), Polis (Romania, 1994-1999; 2013-present);
Adenium Publishing House (Iasi, Romania), Colloquium series (2014-present).
Honorary Chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Romania’s Political and
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Constitutional Regime (appointed by Traian Basescu, President of Romania, 2008-09).
External reviewer/examiner, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton (2009-present); Earhart Foundation (2001-2015); Templeton Foundation
(2016); Catholic University of Leuwen (Belgium, 2011); The European Institutes for
Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Program (2012), Bard College Berlin (2016),
University of Manchester, UK (2016).
Manuscript reviewer, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford
University Press, University of Chicago Press, Penn State University Press, Rowman &
Littlefield, Lexington Books; McGill-Queen’s University Press, Baylor University Press,
American Philosophical Association, American Political Science Review, Perspectives on
Politics, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Contemporary Political
Theory, Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, History of European Ideas,
Journal of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Thought,
Modern Intellectual History, Culture, Theory and Critique, Slovo (UK), East European
Politics and Societies, Problems of Post-Communism, East European Constitutional
Review, Church and State, Politique et sociétés, Balkanistica, Giornale d’istoria
constituzionale, Studia Politica, Valahian Journal of Historical Science, Romanian
Political Science Review.
Director, Tocqueville program, Indiana University (2009-present).
Member of the College of Arts and Humanities and the School of Global and
International Studies Tenure Committee, Indiana University (2015-17).
Member of the Advisory Board, West European Studies, Indiana University (2010-12;
2005-2006); Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University (2011-12)
Member of the Advisory Council, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis,
Indiana University (2011-2014).
Member of the Arts and Humanities General Education Committee, COAS, Indiana
University, Bloomington (2010-12)
Chair of the Best First Book Prize Committee, the Foundations of Political Theory
section of the American Political Science Association (2015).
Member of the Leo Strauss Award Committee for the best dissertation in the field of
political philosophy, American Political Science Association, 2006.
External reviewer for academic tenure, promotion, and appointments (2006-present):
Florida International University, CUNY Graduate Center, Tufts University, Miami
University of Ohio, Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel), Petre Andrei University (Iasi,
Romania).
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Chair of the APSA Award Committee for the Best First Book Prize (2015).
Member of the MPSA Award Committee for the best paper in normative political theory
presented at the 2011 Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago.
Regular invited contributor, BBC (Romanian Section), London & Bucharest, 1999-2008;
The Voice of America (Romanian section), Washington, DC, 1995-1999; The Radio Free
Europe, Prague/Washington, 1996-1999.
Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Institutional Analysis and Development,
Bucharest (Romania), 2007-present.
Correspondent, East European Constitutional Review, New York (1995-1999).
Member of the Translation Advisory Committee, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis (Bastiat and
Tocqueville projects, 2005-2012).
Editorial Adviser, Humanitas House, Bucharest, Romania (1993-2003). Coordinator of
the “Civil Society” series, Humanitas (1998-2003).
Member (past or present) of the American Political Science Association; the Midwest
Political Science Association; the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
Studies; the Association Benjamin Constant (Lausanne, Switzerland), Western Society of
French Studies, Society for French Historical Studies, the Romanian Society of Political
Science (Bucharest, Romania).
Member of the Group for Social Dialogue, Bucharest (1990-2015).
Consultant, Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton, New Jersey (1994-1999).
Languages: Romanian (native), English (fluent), French (fluent), German (reading and
basic speaking), Spanish (reading and basic speaking), Italian (reading).
INTERVIEWS (PRINT, MEDIA, AND RADIO)
Moderation as Democracy’s Key in Our Age of Extremes,” NPR (“On Point,” January 2,
2017), http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/01/02/political-moderation.
“Idei in nocturna. Diaspora: Interviu cu Aurelian Craiutu,” Radio Romania Cultural,
January 12, 2017, http://radioromaniacultural.ro/azi-la-radio-romania-cultural-idei-in-
nocturna-diaspora-3/
“America este o ţară ce se cere inventată,” Timpul (Iaşi, Romania), Interview with Daniel
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Şandru, July 2014 [in Romanian], http://www.revistatimpul.ro/reviste/184/
Interviu, Universitaria, Iasi (Romania), July 4, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnHuKHl5j4
On the publication of Frédéric Bastiat’s complete works. Liberty Fund, 2014,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n56u2W3xAE
On the political thought of François Guizot, Liberty Fund, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be1xP5b65kQ
On the political thought of Germaine de Staël, Liberty Fund, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFRJz8QtDUo
“On Liberal Education,” Bloomington, December 2011
www.wiux.org/blog/2012/02/18/interview-with-professor-aurelian-craiutu/
“Alexis de Tocqueville and America,” The Hermitage - a new monthly podcast series
from the home of President Andrew Jackson; http://www.thehermitage.com/visit/see-
do/podcasts, July 2011.
“American Politics; Without Center and Extremes. An Interview with Aurelian Craiutu”
Dilema Veche (The Old Dilemma), No. 186, August 30-September 5, 2007, p. 13.
“The Theory and Practice of Moderation.” Roundtable discussion with Aurelian Craiutu,
Dilema Veche (The Old Dilemma), July 2006, No. 127, June 30-July 6, 2006, pp. 20-21.
“Can Moderation Be Successful in Romania?” Interview with Aurelian Craiutu,
Observatorul cultural (The Cultural Observer), No. 68 (325), new series, June 15-21,
2006, pp. 16-17.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Dumitru Bradatan, in Crai Nou (New Dawn)
Suceava, July 2006.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Pablo Grandjean and Matthieu Fourny, Roumanie
Magazine [in French], June 2006 [Online]
Live interview with Aurelian Craiutu, broadcast by Christina Rhea, TV-FLUX,
Bucharest, June 15, 2006 (80 minutes).
Live roundtable with Aurelian Craiutu and Andrei Firica, TV dialogue moderated by
Andrei Dorobantu, Bucharest, June 12, 2006 (60 minutes).
Live roundtable with Aurelian Craiutu and Ioan Stanomir, moderated by Laurentiu
Gheorghe, TV-Sigma, Bucharest, June 7, 2006 (90 minutes).
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Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Marius Tita, Radio Romania International, June 2006.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu, (“Discussion of the Week” series, by Mircea Zamfir),
BBC Romanian, May 26, 2006 (30 minutes).
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu (and Jeff Isaac), by Jeremy Shere, Research & Creative
Activity (Indiana University),, vol. XXVIII, No. 1, Fall 2005, pp. 9-11.
Participant in a roundtable on Francis Fukuyama’s book, State Building, BBC Romanian,
July 2004 (broadcast by R. Cotruta).
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu, Romania TV International, March 24, 2004. “Legile
integrarii” (The Laws of Integration), Producer Mihaela Craciun.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu, “We need viable institutions,” 22 (Twenty-Two), No. 36,
September 4-10, 2001, p. 14-16. 22 (Twenty-Two) is one of the most prestigious
Romanian journals. It is published weekly by the Group of Social Dialogue in Bucharest,
Romania. The interview was conducted by the editor-in-chief of 22, Gabriela
Adamesteanu.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Rhea Cristina, Twenty-two Witnesses to Destiny,
Bucharest: Curtea Veche Publishing House, 2000, pp. 99-109 [in Romanian]. The book
consists of twenty-two interviews with leading personalities in Romanian political and
cultural life.
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Constantin Severin in Monitorul, Suceava, September
27, 2000, pp. 6B, 7B [in Romanian].
Interview with Aurelian Craiutu by Dumitru Bradatan, in Crai Nou, Suceava, June 1997.
Participant in roundtables and interviews at the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe
(1995-2001) and the BBC (2001- present).
Voice of America, August 1996. Roundtable on Romanian Democracy. Participants:
Professor Andrei Marga, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj and former Minister of
Education (1997-2000); Aurelian Craiutu; Professor Dinu Giurescu, University of
Bucharest. Moderated by Andrei Brezianu, Director of the Romanian Section of the
Voice of America.
Radio Free Europe, Prague, January 1999. Special edition on Romanian politics with
Aurelian Craiutu, George Voicu (University of Bucharest), moderated by Nestor Ratesh,
Former Director of the Romanian Division, RFE/RL.