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Inside Iran: What Forces Will Decide its Future, and How?
Inside Iran: What Forces Will Decide its Future, and How? (Mehdi Khalaji, February 27, 2020) Watch his speaker playlist About the speaker Mehdi Khalaji is the Libitzky Family fellow at The Washington Institute, focusing on the politics of Iran and Shiite groups … Continue reading
Iraqi Freedom Confronts Iranian Domination
Iraqi Freedom Confronts Iranian Domination (Bilal Wahab, December 10, 2019) Transcript available below About the speaker Dr. Bilal Wahab is the Nathan and Esther K. Wagner fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where he focuses on governance in the … Continue reading
Deciphering the Middle East: Why the U.S. Usually Gets it Wrong
Watch his speaker playlist About the speaker Robert R. Reilly spoke to the Military History Legion at The University Club on February 9. Reilly is the Director of the Westminster Institute. In his 25 years of government service, he has … Continue reading
Unorthodox Thoughts In Regard to the Middle East Military Dimension
Unorthodox Thoughts In Regard to the Middle East Military Dimension(Mark Helprin, June 28, 2017) Transcript available below About the speaker Educated at Harvard College, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Center for Middle Eastern Studies), Princeton, and Oxford, novelist Mark … Continue reading
The Sunni Response to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – Toward MAD or Stability?
The Sunni Response to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – Toward MAD or Stability(Robert McFarlane, March 1, 2017) Transcript available below About the speaker Robert “Bud” McFarlane was National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. … Continue reading
Winning Battles, Losing Wars: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in the Middle East
Watch his speaker playlist About the speaker Michael Eisenstadt is the Kahn Fellow and director of The Washington Institute’s Military and Security Studies Program. A specialist in Persian Gulf and Arab-Israeli security affairs, he has published widely on irregular and … Continue reading
Terrorism: a political, military danger or a cultural, ideological challenge?
ISIS is not merely a terrorist organization, it is a malicious idea. ISIS and Al Qaeda have the same ideological underpinning. We need to confront this pernicious thinking with an enlightened, open-minded thought – one that accepts The Other and … Continue reading
Christian Genocide: Evidence for Its Designation and Saving Christianity in Iraq
Watch his playlist here About the speaker Andrew Doran is co-founder of In Defense of Christians (IDC), a nonprofit organization that advocates for the protection and preservation of Christians in the Middle East. He will present IDC’s new, nearly-300 page … Continue reading
Iran’s Global Ambition
Watch his speaker playlist here About the speaker Dr. Ilan Berman is Senior Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, DC. An expert on regional security in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Russian Federation, he has … Continue reading