Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative Commentary & Analysis

Article

Sep 7, 2021

We are in the interwar period

By Thomas S. Warrick

In September 2021, the United States is only in between major terrorist attacks. This prediction should not be controversial—but today this way of looking at counterterrorism is.

Middle East National Security

Press and members call

Aug 20, 2021

Atlantic Council press call: Protecting Americans and their Afghan allies in Afghanistan

As the dire situation in Afghanistan continues to unfold, senior former officials and experts discuss the urgent policies, posture and operations needed to ensure a rapid, safe evacuation in the days and weeks ahead.

Afghanistan Middle East

Testimony

Mar 18, 2021

Fontenrose testifies to House Foreign Affairs Committee on human rights in Saudi Arabia

By Kirsten Fontenrose

Middle East Security Director, Kirsten Fontenrose testifies to House Foreign Affairs Committee on human rights in Saudi Arabia.

Middle East Politics & Diplomacy

Op-Ed

Feb 2, 2021

Fontenrose in The National Interest: How Joe Biden hopes to shift US policy in the Middle East

In real terms, what aspects of US policy toward the Middle East will remain relatively unchanged under Biden, and what will be notably different?

Middle East Politics & Diplomacy

Transcript

Aug 20, 2020

Transcript: A Conversation with H.E. Anwar Gargash, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs

By Atlantic Council

One week after the UAE-US-Israeli joint statement announcing that the UAE and Israel have normalized relations, H.E. Anwar Gargash discusses how the two countries reached this historic agreement and explore the deal’s regional implications.

Defense Technologies Israel
Princess Reema speaks to Atlantic Council Audience

Event Recap

Feb 28, 2018

Envisioning Reform: The Social Impact of Saudi Arabia’s Transformation Agenda

By Alexander Werman

On Wednesday, February 28, the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security’s Middle East Security Initiative hosted a discussion on Saudi Arabia’s reform agenda with HRH Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud, vice-president for planning and development of the Saudi General Sports Authority. The conversation focused on Saudi Vision 2030 and socioeconomic transformation underway in the Kingdom. […]

Saudi Arabia

Event Recap

Apr 19, 2017

Energy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East

By Maxwell Petersen

On Wednesday, April 19, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security and the Global Energy Center co-hosted a conversation on energy innovation and entrepreneurship in the Middle East featuring Dr. Julia Nesheiwat, presidential deputy envoy for hostage affairs at the US Department of State; HE Majid Al-Suwaidi, consul general of the United Arab Emirates in […]

Video

Feb 9, 2017

Saab and Daniels on Iran

Event Recap

Oct 27, 2016

Tackling Root Causes of Conflict in the Middle East

By Tyler M. Nocita

On Thursday, October 27, 2016, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted Sweden’s State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Annika Söder for a conference on US-European cooperation in the Middle East. Söder delivered keynote remarks, in which she emphasized that the Middle East is undergoing a period of rapid transition and instability, threatened by a […]

Europe & Eurasia Middle East

Event Recap

Oct 19, 2016

A New Strategy for US-Iran Relations in Transition

By Tyler M. Nocita

On Wednesday, October 19, the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security’s Middle East Peace and Security Initiative released Atlantic Council distinguished fellow Ellen Laipson’s A New Strategy for US-Iran Relations in Transition, the sixth installment in the Atlantic Council Strategy Paper series. The report advocates for a balanced approach towards American relations with Iran that […]

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