Media Conference Call: The Future of Iraq
Ned Parker discusses his Foreign Article from the March/April 2012 issue, "The Iraq We Left Behind—Welcome to the World's Next Failed State," and provides insights from on-the-ground experience in Iraq.

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Former deputy editor of Newsweek International and director at EurasiaGroup.
U.S. foreign policy, national security, international law, the UN, and the Middle East.
Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs (Spring 2011-present); Managing Editor and Director, EurasiaGroup (2010); Deputy Editor, Newsweek International (2007-2009); Deputy Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs (1998-2006).
"Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb," Newsweek, September 7, 2009; "Time of the Tough Guys," Newsweek, June 23, 2008; "Foxes and Hedgehogs," The New York Times, October 16, 2005; "The Anti-Anti-Americans," The New York Times, December 12, 2004; "After Abu Ghraib: An American in the Hague," The New York Times, June 10, 2004; "Complicating the Race," The New York Times Magazine, April 28, 2002; "Truth and Consequences," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002. Book: The U.S. vs Al Qaeda: A History of the War on Terror (co-edited with Gideon Rose; Council on Foreign Relations, 2011).
LLM, NYU School of Law
MA, Oxford University
BA, Yale University.
Ned Parker discusses his Foreign Article from the March/April 2012 issue, "The Iraq We Left Behind—Welcome to the World's Next Failed State," and provides insights from on-the-ground experience in Iraq.
Ned Parker discusses his Foreign Affairs article from the March/April 2012 issue, "The Iraq We Left Behind--Welcome to the World's Next Failed State," and provides insights from on-the-ground experience in Iraq.
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