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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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October 1, 2003 - June 30, 2006
Made possible by the generosity of the Pew Forum on Religion & Foreign Life, the project addresses one of the most important challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century: the growing importance of religion in world politics. The project seeks to identify the fundamental research questions on the relationship of religion to U.S. foreign policy and to provide an analytical framework that will generate useful, impartial information.
Meetings
Religion and Foreign Policy Roundtable: A Conversation with Richard Land
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Speaker: | Richard Land, Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission |
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| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
Faith at War: Reports from the Islamic World
Related Projects: Roundtable on the Middle East and Islam, Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Rachel Bronson |
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| Speakers: | Yaroslav Trofimov, Staff Correspondent for Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia Bureaus, The Wall Street Journal, Author of Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu |
| Eliza Griswold, Freelance Journalist |
The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat?
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life |
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| Speaker: | R. James Woolsey, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Vice President, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc. |
Secular Europe and Religious America: Implications for Transatlantic Relations
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life |
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| Speakers: | Peter L. Berger, Professor of Sociology and Theology, and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University |
| John B. Judis, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and, Author, Folly of Empire: What George Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson | |
| Walter Russell Mead |
Religious Fault Lines in West Africa
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Princeton N. Lyman |
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| Speakers: | Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity, Yale University |
Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Speakers: | Mark Noll, Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Christian Thought, Wheaton College and, Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in American History and Ethics, Library of Congress |
| Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, Church of England and, Member, House of Lords |
Global Perceptions of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Speakers: | Karsten Voight, Coordinator, German-American Cooperation, Foreign Ministry, Federal Republic of Germany |
| Liu Peng, Professor, American Social and Cultural Studies, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, PRC |
War, Peace, and Genocide in Sudan: The Religious Dimensions
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Luis Lugo, The Pew Charitable Trusts |
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| Speakers: | Douglas Johnston |
| John Pendergast | |
| Nina Shea |
Evangelicals and U.S. Foreign Policy
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Speakers: | Gary Haugen, International Justice Mission |
| Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma | |
| Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission |
Contact Charles Edel at (212) 434-9659 or cedel@cfr.org
Hindu Nationalism & India's Future: A Post-Election Assessment
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Timothy Samuel Shah |
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| Speaker: | William Wood |
Iraqi Democratization and Shiite Militancy: Squaring the Policy Circle
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Speakers: | Ahmed Al-Rahim, Harvard University |
| Yitzhak Nakash, Brandeis University | |
| Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution |
Contact Bryan Gunderson at (212) 434-9549 or bgunderson@cfr.org
China’s Underground Churches: How Religion Might Be Shaping a Great Power’s Future
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Walter Russell Mead |
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| Speakers: | Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania |
| David Aikmen |
Islam and Secularism: Striking a Balance in Afghanistan and Iraq
Related Project: Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
| Presider: | Luis Lugo, The Pew Charitable Trusts |
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| Speaker: | Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
Complete list of CFR Books.
This report outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
This report analyzes the debate over U.S. use of assurances against torture, explaining the contexts in which they are used, how they can be conveyed, and what they can contain, and recommends a number of ways to respond to criticism so that the United States can continue using assurances.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
gsamore@cfr.org
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
Janine Hill
Deputy Director of Studies Administration
+1.212.434.9753
jhill@cfr.org
The David Rockefeller Studies Program is CFR’s “think tank.” Its work is integral to achieving CFR’s goal of contributing to the foreign policy debate. Fellows in the Studies Program do this by researching, writing, and commenting on the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
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