Paul Coyer

Protestantism, and particularly evangelical Protestantism, has made great inroads throughout Latin America over the course of the past few decades, in what had previously been an almost wholly Roman Catholic Latin America (which contains nearly 40 percent of the world’s Roman Catholics), a legacy of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule that has had deep political…

IWP Research Professor Paul Coyer has contributed a chapter entitled “Trans-Atlantic Relations in the Context of Nationalism, National Identity and Sovereignty” to a book entitled Sovranita, Democrazia e Liberta, [Sovereignty, Democracy, and Freedom] (Rome, 2019) edited by Giuseppe Valditara, pp. 45-50.

The Jewish community in Venezuela, although relatively small, has nevertheless had an outsized impact on the country, as it tends to do in most countries of the world in which the Jewish diaspora have a presence. 

If ever there were an example of a government not performing even the most basic of ethical duties to its citizens, it is that of Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro and the PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela or United Socialist Party of Venezuela). 

IWP Research Professor Dr. Paul Coyer has written a chapter on “The Ethics of Nationalism” for A Persistent Fire: The Strategic Ethical Impact of World War I on the Global Profession of Arms (National Defense University Press, October 2019). This book was edited by Timothy S. Mallard and Nathan H. White. Dr. Coyer’s chapter was…

Several months after the defeat of ISIS in northern Iraq, the ethnic and religious minorities who were driven from their homes hesitate to return.

This article was co-authored by IWP Research Professor Dr. Paul Coyer and Stephen Hollingshead. Several months after the defeat of ISIS in northern Iraq, the ethnic and religious minorities who were driven from their homes hesitate to return. They fear further outbreaks of violence and they do not have the confidence or the wherewithal to…

IWP Research Professor Dr. Paul Coyer wrote an article entitled “Islamic Radicalism in Central Asia” for Oxford Islamic Studies Online, Oxford University Press. This article was published in December 2017 at http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/.

One of the stories coming out of Venezuela that has simultaneously saddened and inspired has been that of Wuilly Arteaga, a talented young violinist who grew up in the poorest part of Valencia, Venezuela’s third largest city.

Venezuela is fast on its way to becoming the next Cuba, if the Socialist Party of Venezuela gets its way and succeeds in rewriting the constitution to enshrine its authoritarian rule permanently – and that should be worrisome for those of us that share the Western hemisphere with Caracas. Due to its immense natural resources and…