In its 84-year history, the Council on Foreign Relations has published a number of important papers and publications dealing with a host of public policy issues, and this latest effort that addresses democracy in the Arab world should be of significant interest to many different groups. This particular report came from a Council-supported Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Congressman Vin Weber. In its 88 pages, the report (released in June 2005) suggests that the promotion of democracy is the best way to achieve stability in the Middle East, and also offers a number of substantial suggestions about how this might be done. Perhaps one of the most interesting segments of the report are the four pages titled "Additional or Dissenting Views", which offer some further explications (and caveats) to the main proposals of the paper as offered by members of the Task Force.