Panelists discuss the Middle East response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges countries in the region are facing, and the long term effects this will have on stability, governance, and economic…

Council on Foreign Relations 04/02/2020 Educators Conference Call: COVID-19 and the Deepening Crises of the Middle East

Panelists discuss economic ramifications of COVID-19 and fiscal policies implemented to respond to the growing global crisis. The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and …

Council on Foreign Relations 2/19/2020 Academic Conference Call on Election 2020: Foreign Policy Challenges with James M. Lindsay.

Council on Foreign Relations 1/29/2020 Academic Conference Call: U.S. Withdrawal From Syria with Mona Yacoubian.

Vali R. Nasr, Majid Khadduri professor of Middle East studies and international affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, discusses Shia-Sunni relations and the implicati…

CFR experts discuss President Donald J. Trump's Middle East peace plan.

Henri J. Barkey, adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at CFR and the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen chair in international relations at Lehigh University, discusses the future of the Kurds in Syria, as part of CFR’s Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

Council on Foreign Relations 10/30/2019 Academic Conference Call: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Trump Administration with Robert D. Blackwill.

CFR experts examine growing tensions between the United States and Iran, in light of recent attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Iran's threat to breach key limits of the 2015 international nu…