January 2006

In This Issue

• At Full Strength
• Defining the Debate
• The US Leading the World
• Faith on the Line

Features

At Full Strength. The Stanley Foundation is welcoming the new year with new staff and renewed energy. We are building on past programming and finding new ways of promoting international cooperation. Find out more about the foundation, our experts, and our new years plans.

http://vps.stanleyfoundation.org/articles/2006think01_fullstrength.php

Defining the Debate. You can't pick up a newspaper or turn on the radio without coverage and commentary on the Middle East and its complex problems. But how many writers and reporters have taken the time to explain the intricacies of politics and religion in the region? think. takes some time to define the terms most often used in the news media—Islam, Islamism, Sunni and Shiite, and more—and how they contribute to and define the debate going on right now.

http://vps.stanleyfoundation.org/articles/2006think01_debate.php

The US Leading the World. The December issue of think. asked readers, "What do you think is today's most pressing international concern?" Sixty-one percent of our readers responded that US leadership should be America's top priority. Matt Martin explains how the United States can regain lost ground.

http://vps.stanleyfoundation.org/articles/2006think01_leading.php

In the News

Faith on the Line. "Muslims and America: Faith on the Line" is a seven-part series authored by veteran Washington reporter Jon Sawyer and religion writer Tim Townsend that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month. Sawyer, who participated in the Beirut media workshop cosponsored by the Stanley and Reuters foundations last September, examines the tension that Muslims in the United States and around the world are grappling with—inside and outside of their faith—more than four years after the September 11 attacks.

http://www.stltoday.com/muslims

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