[RED DEMOCRATICA] CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Bulletin: September 2009

 

September 2009 View this newsletter as a web page on CFR's website. In this Issue: CFR THIS FALL RELIGION AND FOREIGN POLICY CONFERENCE CALL SWINE FLU UPDATE ELECTIONS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD IMMIGRATION POLICY U.S. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN THE RISE OF THE NEW MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS CFR THIS FALL Dear Colleague: I hope you had a wonderful summer. As we begin the fall, I invite you to explore the newest resources from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). I encourage you to visit the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy portal, www.cfr.org/religion, designed to connect the religious community to CFR's best resources on international issues. Please look for announcements of upcoming sessions of our Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series. For more information on the initiative or to participate in a conference call please email us at outreach@cfr.org. Best regards, Irina A. Faskianos Vice President, National Program & Outreach, CFR RELIGION AND FOREIGN POLICY CONFERENCE CALL CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy Thursday, September 24, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. (ET) Speakers: Leonard A. Leo, Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Elizabeth H. Prodromou, Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom This call is part of the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series. To participate, please email outreach@cfr.org or call Elizabeth McCourt at 212.434.9535. Invitations are transferable but limited to religious leaders and scholars; please share with interested colleagues! SWINE FLU UPDATE CFR Interview: Constraints Loom for Swine Flu Vaccine David Fedson, an international expert in flu vaccine policy, says the current global distribution system for vaccines could leave many developing countries without access to vaccines during a flu pandemic. Fedson suggests more attention be given to alternative drug therapies. ==> For more CFR resources on public health threats, click here. ELECTIONS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD CFR Expert Op-ed: A Muslim Model: What Indonesia Can Teach The World CFR expert Joshua Kurlantzick examines Indonesia's recent successful presidential elections and their stark contrast with the contested elections in Afghanistan and Iran, and explains why Indonesia can serve as a model of democracy for other Muslim nations. ==> For more CFR resources on elections around the globe, click here. IMMIGRATION POLICY CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force Report: U.S. Immigration Policy Chaired by former Florida governor Jeb Bush and former White House chief of staff Thomas F. McClarty III, this report lays out a series of concrete, realistic recommendations for legislation and administrative reforms that would be part of an immigration policy that better serves America's national interests. ==> For more CFR resources on immigration, click here. U.S. WAR IN AFGHANISTAN CFR Interactive Timeline: U.S. War in Afghanistan This timeline examines the events that precipitated the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the history of the war, and the contested August 20 Afghan elections. ==> For more CFR resources on Afghanistan, click here. THE RISE OF THE NEW MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS CFR Book: Forces of Fortune:The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world. Nasr reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.

SPECIAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS DISCOUNT Subscribe to Foreign Affairs for $19.95/year! CFR is pleased to offer members of the religious community a discounted subscription to CFR's journal on international affairs. For more information, please click here.     IN THE CURRENT ISSUE "Copenhagen's Inconvenient Truth" Author: Michael A. Levi September/October 2009 Rather than aiming for a broad international treaty at the Copenhagen conference, negotiators should strengthen existing national policies and seek targeted emissions cuts in both rich nations and the developing world. "The Low Carbon Diet" Author: Joel Kurtzman September/October 2009 The free market has eliminated environmental hazards in the past, from leaded gas to acid rain, and it can solve the problem of climate change today. A cap-and-trade system offers the best hope for reducing pollution and encouraging green growth.     RELIGION AND FOREIGN POLICY PORTAL ON CFR.ORG Designed with religious leaders and scholars in mind, our home on the web offers more of CFR's outstanding resources on timely international issues.     CFR FOR YOUR iPHONE Get the latest news from CFR.org on your iPhone with this free application download.

			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. About the CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative The CFR Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative connects religious and congregational leaders, scholars, and thinkers with CFR's resources on U.S. foreign policy and provides a forum for this community to discuss a broad range of pressing international issues. For more information, please contact Marjorie Brands-McCarthy, deputy director for the National Program & Outreach, at 212-434-9564 or outreach@cfr.org. About the Religion and Foreign Policy Portal on CFR.org CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Portal, www.cfr.org/religion, is a "first stop" on the internet for members of the religious community seeking information on and analysis of U.S. foreign policy and global developments. In addition to a wide range of CFR materials--including work from the think tank, interviews with experts, meeting transcripts, and new backgrounders--users will find analysis and documents from other sources that have been carefully selected by the website's editorial staff for their relevance and quality.

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