Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy Project
Staff: Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Timothy Samuel Shah, Former Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy
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
Roundtable Meeting
Religion and Foreign Policy Roundtable: A Conversation with Richard Land
Speaker: Richard Land, Ethics & Religious Liberties Commission
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
December 6, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Faith at War: Reports from the Islamic World
Presider: Rachel Bronson
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
May 4, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
The Global Spread of Wahhabi Islam: How Great a Threat?
Presider: Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
Speaker: R. James Woolsey, Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Vice President, Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Inc.
May 3, 2005
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Roundtable Meeting
Secular Europe and Religious America: Implications for Transatlantic Relations
Presider: Luis Lugo, Director, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
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
April 21, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Religious Fault Lines in West Africa
Presider: Princeton N. Lyman
Speakers: Stephen Ellis, Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity, Yale University
March 15, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Faith and Conflict: The Global Rise of Christianity
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
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
March 2, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
Global Perceptions of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
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
February 4, 2005
Roundtable Meeting
War, Peace, and Genocide in Sudan: The Religious Dimensions
Presider: Luis Lugo, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Speakers: Douglas Johnston
John Pendergast
Nina Shea
June 17, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Evangelicals and U.S. Foreign Policy
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
Speakers: Gary Haugen, International Justice Mission
Allen Hertzke, University of Oklahoma
Richard Land, Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
May 27, 2004
Contact Charles Edel at (212) 434-9659 or cedel@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
Hindu Nationalism & India's Future: A Post-Election Assessment
Presider: Timothy Samuel Shah
Speaker: William Wood
May 18, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Iraqi Democratization and Shiite Militancy: Squaring the Policy Circle
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
Speakers: Ahmed Al-Rahim, Harvard University
Yitzhak Nakash, Brandeis University
Larry Diamond, Hoover Institution
March 9, 2004
Contact Bryan Gunderson at (212) 434-9549 or bgunderson@cfr.org
Roundtable Meeting
China’s Underground Churches: How Religion Might Be Shaping a Great Power’s Future
Presider: Walter Russell Mead
Speakers: Arthur Waldron, University of Pennsylvania
David Aikmen
February 2, 2004
Roundtable Meeting
Islam and Secularism: Striking a Balance in Afghanistan and Iraq
Presider: Luis Lugo, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Speaker: Husain Haqqani, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 16, 2003