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This
month’s Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin features commentary from
CFR experts, articles from the March/April 2019 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, and CFR.org Backgrounders on trending topics in global affairs.
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CFR InfoGuide: No Refuge
Wars,
persecution, and instability have driven the number of refugees to a
historic high, with over sixty million people displaced in the world
today. Take an immersive look at why so many remain in limbo with CFR’s new InfoGuide, No Refuge. |
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RECENT COMMENTARY FROM CFR EXPERTS
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CFR President Richard N. Haass warns
that rising tensions between the United States and China threaten forty
years of fragile stability over Taiwan’s political status, with grave
risks for the security and stability of the region. Read more at CFR.org » |
Mexican
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s tacit support for Nicolas
Maduro risks diminishing his political capital at home and abroad,
writes Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president and deputy
director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for
Latin America Studies at CFR. Read more at CFR.org » |
Both
President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un arrived at the second
U.S.-North Korea summit defined more by their weaknesses than strengths,
says Scott Snyder, CFR senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy. Read more at CFR.org » |
CFR Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia Alyssa Ayres urges
the Trump administration to take tougher action to counter terrorist
organizations operating in Pakistan in response to the February 14
attack on an Indian paramilitary convoy in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir. Read more at CFR.org » |
Shaun Casey,
director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
at Georgetown University, discusses Pope Francis’s recent visit to the
United Arab Emirates, in this CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Conference
Call. Consult the audio and transcript on CFR.org »
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MARCH/APRIL 2019 ISSUE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE
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Writers respond to Francis Fukuyama’s “Against Identity Politics” article from the September/October 2018 issue of Foreign Affairs. Stacey Abrams,
the 2018 Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee, asserts that
marginalized groups are finally overcoming centuries-long efforts to
erase them, which will ultimately strengthen American society, not
fracture it. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com » |
Writing national history creates problems, but not writing national history creates more problems. Jill Lepore of
Harvard University sustains that since the 1970s, U.S. historians have
avoided studying America as a nation. Cautioning what might rush in to
fill the vacuum, she encourages historians to develop a unifying,
inclusive American national history referencing the ideas of Frederick
Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com » |
Cosmopolitanism,
defined as individuals assuming a plurality of overlapping identity
groups, provides the best framework for bridging local and global
concerns to promote the well-being of all humanity, asserts Kwame Anthony Appiah of New York University. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com » |
Walter Russell Mead reviews Steven R. Weisman’s The Chosen Wars: How Judaism Became an American Religion,
which makes the case that today’s American Jewish life is still shaped
by cultural and theological debates from the nineteenth century. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com » |
Nicolas
van de Walle writes that evangelization-oriented Pentecostal Nigerians
have amassed an increasing amount of political influence and power,
possibly to the detriment of democracy and peaceful Christian-Muslim
relations, in his review of Pentecostal Republic: Religion and the Struggle for State Power in Nigeria by Ebenezer Obadare. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com » |
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CFR.ORG BACKGROUNDERS ON TRENDING TOPICS
This
CFR.org Backgrounder explores who is responsible for U.S. border
security, the rules of engagement for armed officials, and how new
measures taken by the Trump administration could affect asylum seekers. Read more at CFR.org » |
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With
a Brexit delay or second referendum now on the table, make sense of the
history of the debate with this CFR.org Backgrounder. Read more at CFR.org » |
This CFR.org Backgrounder elucidates the history, objectives, and regional impact of the Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab. Read more at CFR.org » |
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ABOUT CFR'S RELIGION AND FOREIGN POLICY PROGRAM
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serves as a resource for the faith community, bringing together
congregational and lay leaders, religion scholars, and representatives
of faith-based organizations for conversations on issues at the
intersection of religion and global affairs. For more information,
contact CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Program at 212.434.9737 or outreach@cfr.org. |
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