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A panel of CFR Senior Fellows discusses the wide range of Middle East challenges that face the new administration and its special envoys.
Speakers: Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Steven A. Cook, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations
January 23, 2009
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