Crises in the Broader Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities

Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Hamid Biglari, Managing Partner, TGG Group

Ron Bruder, Founder, Education for Employment

Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Project on International Order and Strategy, Brookings Institution

James Mattis, former CENTCOM Commander

Moderator: Michele Dunne, Senior Associate – Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment

Russia and Europe’s East: New Challenges, New Approaches?



Chrystia Freeland, Member of Parliament, Canada

Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of Russia

Linas Linkevicius, Foreign Minister of Lithuania

Oleh Shamshur, former Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States

Moderator: Senator Jon Kyl, former U.S. Senator (AZ)

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