Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
Staff: Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
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 Meeting
A Conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury
Speaker:
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of CanterburyPresider:
Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Religion and Globalization - Is Conflict Inevitable?
Speaker:
Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United KingdomPresider:
Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Pentecostalism in South Africa
Speakers:
Peter L. Berger, Boston University, Ann Bernstein, Centre for Development and EnterprisePresider:
Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Hindu Activism in India and America - Implications for U.S.-India Relations
Presider:
Luis Lugo, Director, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public LifeSpeakers:
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 FoundationThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Islamic Reform in Turkey - Reinterpreting the Hadith
Speakers:
Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Mustafa Akyol, Turkish Daily NewsThis meeting is not for attribution.
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Islam and Democracy in Nigeria - A Conversation with the Sultan of Sokoto
Speakers:
Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, 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 NigeriaThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Pakistan
Presider:
Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
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 RelationsThis meeting is not for attribution.
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Roundtable on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy: Political Islam in Turkey
Presider:
Timothy Samuel Shah, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Religion and Foreign Policy, The Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations, Hakan Yavuz, Political Science Department, University of UtahThis meeting is not for attribution.
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