Director: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies February 1, 2007 - Present
The United States is faced with an array of serious challenges in the Middle East, perhaps unprecedented in the past fifty years. An attempt to provoke a revolutionary change in the Middle East has collapsed with a large U.S. land army lodged in the heart of the region. The United States now confronts a Middle East that features an imploding Iraqi state, an aggressive Islamic Republic about to cross the nuclear threshold and a Palestinian state broken into two failed entities.
The Roundtable on the U.S. and Middle East will seek to develop strategies for the next administration. Should the United States attempt to recoup its position by pressing forward, albeit more prudently and with international cooperation, or should the United States go "back to the future," and place "stability over freedom," to use President Bush's phrase? Is it time to create an alliance with Sunnis to stave off the immediate threat of Iranian encroachment? What should the United States' grand strategy be in the Middle East? These and other questions will be the focus of monthly discussions.
Speaker: Gary Samore, National Security Council Presider: Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations
March 15, 2011
Roundtable Meeting
U.S.-Russia Cooperation in the Middle East after Georgia
Speaker: Nikolas Gvosdev, Professor, United States Naval College Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
September 26, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Confronting Global Terrorism
Presider: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Tom J. Farer, Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
July 15, 2008
Presider: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: Nadim Al-Jaberi, Al-Fadhila Party, Council of Representatives of Iraq Sheikh Khalaf Al-Ulayyan, Iraqi National Dialogue Council, Council of Representatives of Iraq
June 4, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
Collective Security
Presiders: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Peter Beinart, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
May 14, 2008
Roundtable Meeting
The Price of the Surge
Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council in Foreign Relations Speaker: Steven N. Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council in Foreign Relations
April 29, 2008
Steven Simon discusses "The Price of the Surge," his article in the May/June 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Roundtable Meeting
The United States in the Middle East: From Iraq to Annapolis
Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Robert A. Malley, Program Director, Middle East and North Africa Program, International Crisis Group
December 5, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Palestine: The Next Thousand Days
Presider: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speakers: C. Ross Anthony, Director, RAND Palestine Initiative, Co-director, RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security Robert Malley, Director, Middle East/North Africa Program, International Crisis Group
November 27, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Dennis Ross
Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Dennis B. Ross, Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
October 22, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Next Steps in the Arab-Israeli Peace Process
Presider: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Aaron David Miller, Public Policy Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
May 30, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
A Conversation with Ambassador Mohammad Javad Zarif
Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Mohammad Javad Zarif, Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
March 28, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Time for Detente with Iran?
Presider: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
March 5, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
The Case for U.S. Military Disengagement
Presider: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations Speaker: Steven Simon, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
February 1, 2007
