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| Staff: | Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy |
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December 1, 2006 - Present
Made possible by the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation. Areas to be addressed in roundtables would, depending to some degree on events, include topics such as the role of religion in U.S.-Iranian relations, religion and identity in the Caucasus, Turkey and the West, trends in Hindu nationalism, Islam and democracy in Indonesia, and a look at the activities of American evangelicals in Africa.
Meetings
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Hindu Activism in India and America - Implications for U.S.-India Relations
Related Project: Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
| Presider: | Luis Lugo, Director, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life |
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| Speakers: | Walter Andersen, Associate Director, South Asian Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University |
| Ram Madhav, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh | |
| Aseem Shukla, Hindu American Foundation |
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Islamic Reform in Turkey - Reinterpreting the Hadith
Related Project: Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
| Speakers: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Mustafa Akyol, Turkish Daily News |
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Islam and Democracy in Nigeria - A Conversation with the Sultan of Sokoto
Related Project: Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
| Speakers: | Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| John Campbell, U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, U.S. Embassy - Abuja | |
| His Eminence Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar, III, The Sultan of Sokoto, Federal Republic of Nigeria |
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Pakistan
Related Project: Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution |
| Husain Haqqani, Director, Department of International Relations, Boston University | |
| Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Political Islam in Turkey
Related Project: Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
| Presider: | Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy, The Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations |
| Hakan Yavuz, Political Science Department, University of Utah |
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