Jean Bethke Elshtain is Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and the Thomas and Dorothy Leavy Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom at Georgetown University. She is author or co-author of over twenty books and over four hundred articles. She is the recipient of seven honorary degrees and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996. A graduate of Colorado State University, she received her PhD from Brandeis University.

Publications:
Sovereignty: God, State, Self (2008)
Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2003)
Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (2002)
Who Are We? Critical Reflections and Hopeful Possibilities. Politics and Ethical Discourse (2000)
New Wine in Old Bottles: International Politics and Ethical Discourse (1998)
The King Is Dead (1998)
Political Mothers (1998)
Real Politics: Political Theory and Everyday Life (1997)
Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1996)
Democracy on Trial (1995)
But Was It Just?: Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War (1992)
Power Trips and Other Journeys (1990)
Women and War (1987)
Meditations on Modern Political Thought (1986)
Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981)