Wisdom-based foreign relations

Seeing International Relations and Foreign Policy through Different Eyes

Five Norms of Wisdom for Thinking about More Cooperative Relations between the United States and the Muslim Middle East

This article began in late 2008 as a Wisdom Project Special Paper for a senior adviser in Britain. My work had come to his attention and he was curious as to what the agency of wisdom might practically offer political and religious leaders and their advisers working in the field of Western – Middle East relations. Afterward, in hopes of reading a wider audience, I expanded the Paper into an article by drawing on material from chapters of the book I’m writing on U.S. – Mideast relations. It is a different way of reasoning about IR and FP. It is hoped that readers will comment and offer their perspectives. Thank you for stopping by.

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