Towards a Better Middle East
Nabil Fahmy, a former Foreign Minister of Egypt, is Founding Dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at The American University in Cairo, where he is also a Distinguished University Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy. This essay is adapted from a chapter in his latest book, Egypt’s Diplomacy in War, Peace, and Transition (2020) and is used by permission. You may follow him on Twitter @DeanNabilFahmy.
Down but Not Out – Trump’s Deal of the Century in the Shadow of the Coronavirus
Amos Yadlin is the Director of Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). From 2006 to 2010, he was chief of Israeli military intelligence. You may follow him on Twitter @YadlinAmos Ari Heistein is a Research Fellow and Chief of Staff to the Director of INSS. You may follow him on Twitter @ariheist.
The End of Transatlanticism? – How Sanctions are Dividing the West
Rawi Abdelal is Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School and Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Aurélie Bros is a Senior Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, where she leads the Energy Project, and a former official of the European Commission and the French energy ministry. You may follow her on Twitter @BrosAurelie. An earlier version of this essay was entitled “Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism” and appeared as Notes de l’Ifri: https://www.ifri.org/en/publications/notes-de-lifri/sanctions-and-end-trans-atlanticism-iran-russia-and-unintended-division.
Afghanistan Abandoned? Why an Ailing America Must not Walk Away
Barnett R. Rubin is Director of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Associate Director at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, and Nonresident Fellow of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft who has served as an advisor to both the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan. His next book, Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know, will be published by Oxford University Press in July 2020. You may follow him on Twitter @BRRubin.
Iran and America – The Impasse Continues
Michael Singh is a former Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the U.S. National Security Council, is the Lane-Swig Senior Fellow and Managing Director at The Washington Institute.
You may follow him on Twitter @MichaelSinghDC.
Iran and the West – Neither Direct Confrontation Nor Normalization
Mahmood Sariolghalam is a Professor of International Relations at the National University of Iran. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern California and has written extensively on Iran and U.S.-Iranian relations in both Farsi and English. This essay is an updated and expanded version of a paper published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Building A Middle East Crisis Management Mechanism
Michel Duclos is Special Advisor to the Institut Montaigne, a Non-resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a former Ambassador of France to Syria. You may follow him on Twitter @MrjDuclos. Andrey Kortunov is Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and President of the New Development Technologies Autonomous Non-profit Organization. This essay is a revised version of a blog post that originally appeared on the website of the Institut Montaigne.
A Way Out of the Middle East?
Andrey Fedorov, a former Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia and adviser to both the Prime Minister and Vice President of Russia, is Director of the Fund for Political Research and Consulting in Moscow.
Crisis Beyond the Crises – MENA’s Youth Unemployment Problem
Krishna B. Kumar is Director of International Research and Distinguished Chair in International Economic Policy at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and Director of the Pardee Initiative for Global Human Progress at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He also serves on the board of the multi-stakeholder coalition Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE). You may follow him on Twitter @kbkumar_.