Berkley Center

David H. Warren explores the role of interfaith dialogue in the foreign policy of the United Arab Emirates, highlighting the Abraham Accords as one effort to brand the UAE as an oasis of interfaith harmony as it moves away from an interventionist foreign policy.

Ger FitzGerald reflects on the Catholic dimension of Irish-American political advocacy after Brexit and during the Biden administration, highlighting efforts by the Ancient Order of Hibernians to defend the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Good Friday Agreement.

Jon Hoffman explores the religious engagement of both Russia and China in the Middle East, arguing Moscow and Beijing are continuing to deepen engagement in the region to re-establish a state-controlled monopoly on Islamic discourse after the post-Arab Uprisings era.