The Seminar on the Near East and the World
The Seminar on the Near East and the World was established in 2013 to provide a forum to examine interactions between the Near East with the wider world, especially, but not exclusively, in the realm of international relations. Among the topics that the seminar has explored are the regional consequences of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the historical role and current predicament of Christianity in the Near East, and American foreign policy toward the region. The Seminar on the Near East and the World seeks to offer a variety of opinions and perspectives and makes no endorsements.
Spring Semester 2019 Talks
Michael Anton, Former National Security Advisor to the President for Strategic Communications
“Be Not Afraid: Trump ad a New World Order”
March 6, 2019
C.J. Chivers, New York Times Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author of The Gun and The Fighters
“From Grand Ambitions to Failure: America’s Mideast Wars Since 2001”
March 26, 2019
Ben Rhodes, Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President for Strategic Communications
And Author of The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
“The World as It Is”
April 16, 2019
Stephen Walt, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
“The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy”
April 30, 2019