Monica D. Toft

Associate Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
Office Address
Littauer-376B
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 53
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-3966
Fax: 617-495-8963
Email: Monica_Toft@harvard.edu
Monica Toft

Profile

Monica Duffy Toft is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her research interests include religion and politics, nationalism and ethnic conflict, civil and interstate wars, the relationship between demography and national security, international relations theory, and military and strategic planning. A 2008 Carnegie Scholar, Professor Toft is the author of Securing The Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars (Princeton University Press, 2009),The Geography of Ethnic Conflict: Identity, Interests, and Territory (Princeton University Press, 2003). Most recently, Prof. Toft is co-author of God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2011). She is also co-editor of The Fog of Peace: Strategic and Military Planning under Uncertainty (Routledge, 2006). Professor Toft was a research intern at the RAND Corporation and served in the U.S. Army in southern Germany as a Russian voice interceptor. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Professor Toft is director of the Belfer Center's Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, which was established with a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.

Courses

Not Offered

  • IGA-925 Field Seminar in Security Studies
  • IGA-121 Religion in Global Politics

Year

  • IGA-150Y Seminar: International and Global Affairs

Media Expertise

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Book Chapters
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Wombfare: The Religious Basis of Fertility Politics." Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. Ed. Goldstone, Jack A., Eric P. Kaufmann, and Monica Duffy Toft. Paradigm Publishers, 2011.
  • Commentary
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "Why a Rebel Victory in Libya is Better than a Negotiated Settlement." Christian Science Monitor, September 13, 2011.
    • Toft, Monica Duffy. "The Dangers of Secularism in the Middle East." Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 2011.
    • Shah, Timothy, Daniel Philpott, and Monica Toft. "God and Terror." Public Discourse, May 20, 2011.
    • Shah, Timothy, Daniel Philpott, and Monica Toft. "God and Democratic Diplomacy." Public Discourse, May 18, 2011.
    • Shah, Timothy, Daniel Philpott, and Monica Toft. "God and Political Science." Public Discourse, May 16, 2011.
  • Edited Volumes
    • Samuel Shah, Timothy, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft, eds. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs. Oxford University Press, 2012.
    • Goldstone, Jack A., Eric P. Kaufmann, and Monica Duffy Toft, eds. Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics. Paradigm Publishers, 2011.