This study group examined the sources of tension in U.S. relationships with the Muslim world and evaluated feasible policy alternatives for improving relations with individual Muslim countries and the Muslim world as a whole. Meetings addressed topics such as the "Islamic factor" in U.S. foreign policy, U.S. relations with self-declared governments of God (e.g., Iran and Afghanistan), and reconciling the promotion of human rights and democracy with American economic and strategic interests in the Muslim world.