Andrew Latham is a professor of political science at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He regularly teaches courses on International Relations,  Medieval Political Thought, Liberal and Conservative Political Thought, and Religion and World Politics. He is the author, most recently, of (a) Theorizing Medieval Geopolitics: War and World Order in the Age of the Crusades; (b) Sovereignty: The Development of an Idea, 1298-1307; and (c) The Holy Lance, his first novel. In 2017 Latham received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of his book Sovereignty: The Birth of an Idea, 1298-1307, which will be published by ARC Humanities Press/Amsterdam University Press in 2020. He has published in a range of leading academic journals (including International Studies Quarterly, and European Journal of International Relations).  In recent years, he has turned his attention to contemporary political developments, especially those related to the putative demise of the liberal order.  Latham has published on a variety topics in magazines such as First Things, Commonweal, Touchstone, Ethika Politika, OnePeterFive, Public Discourse, and Crisis. Latham also writes a biweekly column for the online publication Medievalists.net.