World Review: US Middle East Policy, Myanmar Protests, Big Tech
Nirmal Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
About This Event
On this week’s episode of World Review, Council President Ivo Daalder talks with the Straits Times’ Nirmal Ghosh, the Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Carla Anne Robbins on Biden’s Middle East policy, what Australia's battle with Facebook tells us about big tech and democracy, and the escalating response to the Myanmar protests.
About the Speakers
US Bureau Chief, The Straits Times
Nirmal Ghosh is the US Bureau Chief for The Straits Times. His reporting covers politics, elections, conflict and coups d’etat, natural disasters, and social and environmental issues across a dozen Asian countries.
Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times
Gideon Rachman is the Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator at the Financial Times. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok.
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Prior to her work at the Council on Foreign Relations, Carla Anne Robbins was the deputy editorial page editor of The New York Times.
President, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013 prior to becoming president of the Council. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of ten books.
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This content is produced by the Lester Crown Center, which aims to shape debates and inform decisions on important US foreign policy and national security issues.