Richard Haass on "The New Middle East"

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Speaker

Richard Haass

Author, "The New Middle East," Foreign Affairs; President, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider

Gideon Rose

Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs

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