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CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin
November 2020
Post-Election Commentary and Resources on Political Polarization
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This month’s Religion and Foreign Policy bulletin features resources from Foreign Affairs, CFR.org, and two Religion and Foreign Policy webinars on faith, polarization, and the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath.
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Post-Election Commentary and Analysis
ForeignAffairs.com: Repairing the World
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CFR President Richard N. Haass catalogues the daunting list of issues that President-Elect Joe Biden will inherit as he begins his presidential term in January. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com »
ForeignAffairs.com: Why America Must Lead Again
In the March/April 2020 edition of Foreign Affairs magazine, President-Elect Joe Biden outlined his foreign policy vision of renewing U.S. democracy and alliances, remaining economically competitive, and reinstating the United States’ global leadership role. Read it on ForeignAffairs.com »
The President's Inbox Podcast: Transition 2021: What Foreign Policy Challenges Await President-Elect Biden?
CFR President Richard Haass assesses the world that President-Elect Biden will inherit in this week’s Transition 2021 episode of The President’s Inbox, hosted by James M. Lindsay, CFR senior vice president, director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg chair. Listen at CFR.org »
ForeignAffairs.com: The U.S. Election System Worked
The Brennan Center for Justice’s Election Reform Program Director Lawrence Norden and Democracy Program Fellow Derek Tisler describe their confidence in the U.S. 2020 election process. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com »
ForeignAffairs.com: A New Administration Won’t Heal American Democracy
Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, looks beyond Trump as the cause of a decline in American democracy, and contends that citizens, not a new administration, are key in mitigating partisan and racial polarization. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com »
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Resources on Partisanship and Polarization in America
Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Faith, Polarization, and the 2020 Election Part 1
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Melissa Rogers, visiting professor at Wake Forest University Divinity School and nonresident senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners, discuss the role that faith groups can play in protecting democracy.
Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Faith and Polarization in 2020 Part 2
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Kim Daniels, associate director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, discusses the effect that political polarization has on the American religious community.
CFR.org: One America, Two Nations
Richard N. Haass writes on the high level of polarization in the United States in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. Read more at CFR.org »
CFR Virtual Meeting: Combating Online Misinformation
Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Jamal Greene, Dwight professor of law at Columbia Law School, and David Kaye, clinical professor of law at the University of California Irvine School of Law and United Nations special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, explore the government's role in combating the spread of disinformation on social media and the internet at large. Watch a recording of the event at CFR.org »
ForeignAffairs.com: Trump Won’t Be the Last American Populist
Daron Acemoglu, institute professor at MIT and co-author of the book The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty, urges an understanding of the deep fractures in U.S. politics and society that led to President Trump’s election if the country is to prevent the rise of an autocrat in the future. Read more at ForeignAffairs.com »
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About CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Program
The CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Program advances understanding of the forces shaping international relations through exchange between faith leaders and policymakers and offers a forum for congregational leaders, seminary heads, scholars of religion, and representatives of faith-based organizations to address global issues. For more information, contact CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Program at 212.434.9581 or outreach@cfr.org.
About CFR
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Founded in 1921, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.
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