What Role Should Religion Play in Shaping U.S. Foreign Policy?

Can religious convictions promote a more moral foreign policy? Do they lead to fanaticism, or do they encourage a new realism about the forces shaping the choices that confront the United States?

The question of religion and its role in policy choices—particularly as those choices relate to nation-building and democratization—has long found itself at the heart of debates about foreign aid, economic sanctions, and military intervention.

Brookings and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life will host a panel discussion October 15 that will include several co-authors of a new book from the Brookings Institution Press, Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion & U.S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World. Panelists will take questions from the audience.

MODERATOR:

E.J. DIONNE, JR.
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; Co-editor, Liberty & Power; Columnist, Washington Post Writers Group

PANELISTS:

FATHER BRYAN HEHIR
President, Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of Boston; Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life, Harvard University

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Syndicated columnist, Washington Post

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD

Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America’s Grand Strategy in a World at Risk

LOUISE RICHARDSON
Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

SHIBLEY TELHAMI
Anwar Sadat Professor of Peace and Development, University of Maryland; Author, The Stakes: America and the Middle East

Register online at www.pewforum.org, or by calling (202) 955-5075.