
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