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The result is that such religious actors can sometimes __________ (17) foreign policies. Religion’s 
greatest __________ (18) on the international system is through its significant __________ (19) on 
domestic politics. They try to __________ (20) public opinion through the media, demonstrations, 
or via think tanks thus encouraging states to __________ (21) foreign policies that they believe are 
most in __________ (22) with their religious values and goals. 
Non-state religious actors. They are religious individuals or movements that act in both domes-
tic and international __________ (23), often engaging with other __________ (24) traditions in 
their concern with various global issues, including conflict __________ (25) and human develop-
ment. These focus on transnational religious networks.
How do religious actors __________ (26) outcomes in international relations? While their 
goals vary, they will typically attempt to __________ (27) objectives through the application of 
‘__________ (28) power’. Religions have special potential for __________ (29) system-wide change 
because they __________ (30) boundaries, have __________ (31) for the full range of society’s 
institutions and ideas, and compellingly motivate individuals who are in their thrall. It is not an 
__________ (32) that the origin of the sovereign states system was catalyzed by a religious up-
heaval, the Protestant Reformation. This raises the __________ (33) that comparable new upheav-
als could once again produce far-reaching changes in the international system.
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As the world becomes more religious, religion will also likely __________ (1) relations in the 
traditional nation-state system. At a basic level, religion will be an __________ (2) factor in under-
standing the general foreign policy orientations of many countries. There will undoubtedly be ex-
ceptions — Western states supported Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo over Christians, to take one 
__________ (3) — but many historical examples suggest that religion __________ (4) collective 
identities and guides foreign policy. Germany’s Catholics __________ (5) the country to recognize 
Catholic Croatia’s __________ (6) from Yugoslavia in the aftermath of the Cold War. __________ (7) 
states such as Greece and Russia opposed NATO’s bombing of Orthodox Serbia in 1999.
The foreign policy __________ (8) of religion are evident when it comes to Islam as well. Sau-
di Arabia’s cultural diplomacy has __________ (9) the country’s influence in the Islamic world 
by spreading its more rigid form of Islam, upsetting local Islamic practices and long-standing 
traditions of religious toleration and coexistence. Meanwhile, Iran has pursued an equally 
__________ (10) religious diplomacy, exporting its messianic form of Shiism across the Arab 
world and supporting sectarian movements in Lebanon (Hezbollah), the Palestinian territories 
(Hamas), and Iraq.
Another potentially __________ (11) factor in international relations is the __________ (12) of 
Christianity on foreign policy orientation. The political scientist Walter Russell Mead has argued 
that the global rise of Christianity is __________ (13) for U.S. foreign policy. Christianity, he says, 
is “the world’s most pro-American __________ (14)” because it is __________ (15) with Ameri-
can beliefs and ideas, supports religious freedom, and helps __________ (16) the kind of values 
conducive to democracy and economic development. The religious dimensions are a growing 
__________ (17) of U.S. foreign policy and explain (to a large __________ (18)) legislation in the 
past decade on human trafficking, religious freedom, the violence in Darfur, and human rights in 
North Korea.
Globalization and its __________ (19) on religious trends will undoubtedly __________ (20) 
domestic conditions as well. Religiously divided populations from Indonesia to Nigeria have 

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