Study Group on U.S. Foreign Policy and the Muslim World

Director: Augustus Richard Norton
September 1, 1997 - November 1, 1997

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.

Meetings

Study Group Meeting

Session 4

Presider:

Augustus Richard Norton

Speakers:

Lamis Andoni, Journalist (Jordan), American University of Beirut, Safia Saadeh, U.S. Department of State, Ronald Schlicher
November 13, 1997

This meeting is not for attribution.

Study Group Meeting

Session 3

Presider:

Augustus Richard Norton, Boston University

Speakers:

Mohammad J. Mahallati, The Middle East Institute, Mahmood Sariolghalam, Ohio State University
October 30, 1997

This meeting is not for attribution.

Study Group Meeting

Session II

Presider:

Augustus Richard Norton

Speakers:

Douglas A. Hartwick, U.S. Department of State, K. S. Jomo, University of Malaya, Robert Hefner, Boston University
October 9, 1997

This meeting is not for attribution.

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Study Group Meeting

Session I

Presider:

Augustus Richard Norton

Speakers:

Robert H. Pelletreau Jr., Afridi and Angell, Hassan Hanafi, Cairo University
September 18, 1997

This meeting is not for attribution.