Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide

P EM Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide /EM is an outgrowth of a Stanley Foundation initiative bringing together foreign policy and national security specialists from across the political spectrum to find common ground on ten key, controversial areas of policy. For each topic, a conservative and a progressive expert, some of the leading thinkers of their generation, jointly author a chapter outlining their points of agreement on such subjects as the use of force, democracy promotion, countering terrorism, detainee treatment, China, and national defense. /P P As in the wider political arena, two-dimensional images of progressive and conservative views on national security are major obstacles to the search for new ideas and solutions. In EM Bridging the Foreign Policy Divide /EM , leading analysts will help build a more constructive debate by looking past philosophical differences and identifying effective approaches to the major national security challenges confronting the United States. The project givesexperts an opportunity to examine politically sensitive issues on the merits and resist the distortions and oversimplifications of today's polarizing environment. /P