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From its inception, the United Nations played a major role in U.S. foreign policy, and the United States reaped significant benefits from its cooperation with the world body. The author argues that in accepting the universality of the UN, the United States contributed to its own predicament. In attempting to remedy the consequence, America, he recommends, should abandon its support for authoritarian regimes in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and back drives for human rights in the United Nations and elsewhere as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recommendations from an expert on the parameters for a clear U.S. policy toward Iran. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author offers thoughtful short- and long-term prescriptions designed to demoralize the fundamen-talist campaign against the United States and initiate an educational program that would emphasize the advantages of democracy and human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Arab women are the future of the Middle East according to arguments advanced by the panelists who attended the NCAFP conference in New York in 2005. This report of the proceedings contains a range of policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about various books related to American foreign policy. The book "The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West," by Gilles Kepel is dedicated to the memory of the celebrated French Islamologist Maxime Rodinson, who died in 2004 and whose remarkable 1957 biography of the prophet Muhammad has become a classic. The book "Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad," by Natana J. Delong-Bas book suffers from a rare display of pro-Wahhabism at a time when the 9/11 hijackers and their mentor, Osama bin Laden , are known as followers of that puritanical sect.