Kurdistan’s Fate – An Oasis of Stability Amidst a Region in Peril

Masoud Barzani is President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Egypt’s Foreign Policy in Changing Times

Nabil Fahmy is Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, and a former Foreign Minister of Egypt
The Upheavals in the Middle East and Israel’s Strategic Balance

is Director of Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former head of the Israeli Defense Forces Military Intelligence Directorate
The Defining Humanitarian Crisis of our Time

David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee and a former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom
The Battle for Pluralism

Marwan Muasher is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees its research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East, having previously served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Jordan, as well as the country’s ambassador to the United States
Terror and Radicalization – The Council of Europe’s Response

Thorbjørn Jagland is Secretary General of the Council of Europe ANYONE who has visited France in recent months will understand what I mean when I say that the Paris terrorist attacks cast a long shadow. The shootings at the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket at the start of 2015 sent a shockwave through […]
Reconciliation and Peace in the Middle East

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser is United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations and a former President of the UN General Assembly
Israel and the Middle East’s Grim Realities

Itamar Rabinovich is Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings and a former Israeli ambassador to the United States, as well as chief negotiator with Syria
What Went Wrong with the Middle East?

Dominique Moïsi is a founding member of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) and Visiting Professor at King’s College London
Can the Security Council Provide a Framework for an Israeli-Palestinian Agreement?

Robert Wexler is president of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, having previously represented Florida’s 19th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives