merkel_angela.jpg Kim Heys's blog If there were ever a year for complex and intractable global challenges, 2015 was it. The Syrian Civil War, the dangerous rise of ISIS, and the human refugee crisis. The Greek debt drama and the potential unraveling ...
Kim Heys's blog syria_peace_talks.jpg We live in a more complicated and less controllable world than at any time in history. This week's recommended readings make this point plain. There was some diplomatic progress on Syria, although the diffic ...
March 2016 will mark the fifth anniversary of the uprisings that sparked the Syrian Civil War. Recent peace talks in Vienna demonstrate a renewed international resolve to halt the violence. But peace remains a distant prospect. Consensus on the two weig ...
obama_salman.jpg Kim Heys's blog In a recent essay in The New York Times, former undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns writes about one of the central challenges of the Obama administration’s foreign policy: balancing diplomatic engagement with dete ...
refugees_jordan.jpg Kim Heys's blog There seems to be no end in sight for the world’s growing refugee crisis. As Thomas Friedman reports in a recent New York Times column, the international humanitarian relief system is currently overwhelmed by the n ...
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/11/466457065/nato-to-deploy-warships-between-greek-is... Ivo H. Daalder February 11, 2016 NPR's All Things ConsideredGlobal Security, Middle EastGlobal SecurityMiddle East Ivo H. Daalder ...
Leadership supporters at the President’s Circle level or higher and their guests are invited to an invitational dinner with David Ignatius following the program, David Ignatius on Syria’s Lessons. Members $150.00 Registration includes admission to the pu ...
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-victims-wishful-thinking-about-iran-1527... Saeid Golkar February 21, 2016 The National InterestPolicy & Politics, Middle EastPolicy & PoliticsMiddle East Saeid Golkar ...
syria_rubble.jpg Kim Heys's blog One of the great illusions that followed the Cold War was that we had entered an era in which power and geopolitics didn’t matter—we had approached the “end of history.” Today this notion seems bunk. As liberal democr ...
http://thediplomat.com/2016/03/the-iran-deal-and-the-us-japan-alliance/ Craig Kafura March 1, 2016 The DiplomatGlobal Economy, Policy & Politics, Asia, Middle EastGlobal Economy, Policy & PoliticsAsia, Middle East Craig Kafura ...
