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
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A Conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury
Speaker: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
Presider: Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
January 27, 2010
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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 Kingdom
Presider: Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
May 19, 2009
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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 Enterprise
Presider: Walter Russell Mead, Council on Foreign Relations
September 4, 2008
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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 Life
Speakers: 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 Foundation
April 22, 2008
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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 News
March 20, 2008
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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 Nigeria
November 7, 2007
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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 Relations
Speakers: 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 Relations
October 30, 2007
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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 Relations
Speakers: Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, The Council on Foreign Relations
Hakan Yavuz, Political Science Department, University of Utah
June 4, 2007
Saudi Arabia on the Edge
American Force
The Struggle for Egypt
