image

Steven A. Cook

Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies

Expertise

Middle East; Politics in the Arab world; U.S.-Middle East policy; Turkish politics; civil-military relations in the Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict.

CFR Events

General Meeting ⁄ Washington

Egypt's Presidential Election: Before the Ballots

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michele Dunne, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council of the United States

Presider:

James J. Zogby, President, Arab American Institute
May 14, 2012 12:00-12:30 p.m. - Lunch Reception
12:30-1:30 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

General Meeting ⁄ Washington

Egypt's Presidential Election: Before the Ballots

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michele Dunne, Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council of the United States

Presider:

James J. Zogby, President, Arab American Institute
May 14, 2012 12:00-12:30 p.m. - Lunch Reception
12:30-1:30 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Guest Event ⁄ Washington

U.S.-Turkey Relations - A New Partnership: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force

Speakers:

Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Task Force Co-Chair, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Adviser for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace; Former U.S. National Security Adviser; Task Force Co-Chair, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Task Force Project Director

Presider:

David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, "Washington Post"
May 9, 2012 12:00-12:30 p.m. - Lunch Reception
12:30-1:30 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Guest Event ⁄ Washington

U.S.-Turkey Relations - A New Partnership: Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force

Speakers:

Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former U.S. Secretary of State; Task Force Co-Chair, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Adviser for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace; Former U.S. National Security Adviser; Task Force Co-Chair, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Task Force Project Director

Presider:

David Ignatius, Columnist and Associate Editor, "Washington Post"
May 9, 2012 12:00-12:30 p.m. - Lunch Reception
12:30-1:30 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Guest Event ⁄ New York

U.S.-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership
Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force

Speakers:

Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former Secretary of State, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR; Task Force Project Director

Presider:

Gary Rosen, Editor, Review, Wall Street Journal
May 8, 2012 12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Guest Event ⁄ New York

U.S.-Turkey Relations: A New Partnership
Report of a CFR-Sponsored Independent Task Force

Speakers:

Madeleine K. Albright, Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group; Former Secretary of State, Stephen J. Hadley, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, U.S. Institute of Peace, Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, CFR; Task Force Project Director

Presider:

Gary Rosen, Editor, Review, Wall Street Journal
May 8, 2012 12:30-1:00 p.m. - Lunch
1:00-2:00 p.m. - Meeting

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Symposium

Session Four: Regional Consequences: The Geopolitics of the Changing Middle East

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, Marwa Daoudy, Visiting Lecturer in International Affairs and Visiting Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University (Currently on leave as Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford), Avi Shlaim, Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony's College; Former Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Presider:

Michael Slackman, Deputy Foreign Editor and Former Cairo Bureau Chief, New York Times
March 29, 2012 - March 30, 2012 8:45-9:00 a.m.

This meeting is on the record.

Listen

Academic Conference Call

The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square

Speaker:

Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
October 26, 2011 12:00-1:00 p.m. - (ET)

This meeting is not for attribution.

Listen

Conference Call

Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections: Impact and Implications

Speaker:

Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

Robert McMahon, Editor, CFR.org, Council on Foreign Relations
November 30, 2010 12:30-1:30 p.m. - Conference call

This meeting is not for attribution.

Listen

Academic Conference Call

Gaza Update

Speaker:

Steven A. Cook, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

Irina A. Faskianos, Vice President, National Program & Outreach, Council on Foreign Relations
January 22, 2009

This meeting is not for attribution.

Listen

Conference Panel Session

Center for Preventive Action Symposium on Preventive Priorities for a New Era, Session Two: Outlook for Critical Regions

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Michelle D. Gavin, Adjunct Fellow for Africa, Council on Foreign Relations, Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

Jane Holl Lute, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, United Nations
December 9, 2008

This meeting is not for attribution.

ListenWatch

General Meeting ⁄ New York

Muslim Views of the West

Speakers:

Geneive Abdo, Senior Analyst, Gallup Center for Muslim Studies; Author, Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11, Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science; Director, International Institute; Vice Provost for International Affairs, University of Michigan

Presider:

Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
March 13, 2007 7:45-9:00 a.m.

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch

Conference Call ⁄ New York

Fractured Alliance? The Future of U.S.-Turkey Relations

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Alliance Relations, Council on Foreign Relations; and coauthor, Council Special Report, Generating Momentum for a New Era in U.S.-Turkey Relations

Presider:

Marc Grossman, Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group; and former United States Ambassador to Turkey
June 22, 2006

This meeting is on the record.

Listen

Symposium ⁄ New York

The Emerging Shia Crescent Symposium: Is Shia Power Cause for Concern?

Speakers:

Steven A. Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Toby C. Jones, Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in Middle East History, Swarthmore College, Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

Ethan S. Bronner, Deputy Foreign Editor, The New York Times
June 5, 2006

This meeting is on the record.

ListenWatch