2017-18 American Foreign Policy toward the Middle East

“The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion

Betrayed the National Interest”

Walter A. McDougall

University of Pennsylvania

March 6, 2018

“Could Less Be More? Restraint as a U.S. Strategy for the Middle East”

Michael E. Desch

Notre Dame International Security Center

April 3, 2018

“Iran’s Challenge to the Regional Order”

Ambassador James F. Jeffrey

The Washington Institute

April 5, 2018

“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Kurds”

Denise Natali

Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

April 19, 2018

“The Trump Administration’s Incoherent Middle East Policy”

Jonathan Stevenson

International Institute for Strategic Studies

April 24, 2018

“17 Years of War-fighting without War-thinking”

Bing West

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Author

May 1, 2018