Converting the Foreign Policy Elite

By Dr. Chris Seiple on 24 February 2010

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs report on religion and the making of U.S. foreign policy provides a comprehensive overview of how the American foreign policy and national security establishment has not addressed the intersection of religion and realpolitik--to its own detriment. It essentially makes the case that if religion has been a part of the problem, then it can also be a part of the solution. And that part of this solution calls for the best of faith to defeat the worst of religion; that is, that faith communities worldwide should be intentionally engaged as groups who have something positive to contribute to the stability, prosperity, and civility of both state and society (beginning with the fight against extremism). This is only common sense ...

Read Dr. Seiple's full review at The Washington Post.

Last updated 02 March 2010