Making Foreign Policy Moral
Monique Beadle Thursday, 1 December 2005
E.J. Dionne, Jr., Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Kayla Drogosz, eds., Liberty and Power: A Dialogue on Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy in an Unjust World (Brookings, 2004). 119 pp. $16.95.
This latest volume in the Pew Forum Dialogue Series begins with a stated assumption that "religious voices and insights rooted in faith have a great deal to contribute to our public deliberations about politics and public policy" (p. 3). If that is true, the editors ask, "Can religious convictions guide a moral foreign policy?"
Liberty and Power is the product of a discussion of this complex and freighted question among six thinkers: Bryan Hehir, Michael Walzer, Louise Richardson, Shibley Telhami, Charles Krauthammer, and James Lindsay. It is a highly distinguished group—but it is also highly diverse, as are the answers they provide to the editors' question.
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