In Conversation With Steven A. Cook

On June 14, AGSIW hosted a discussion on U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Speakers Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Studies, Director, International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars, Council on Foreign Relations Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar, AGSIW (Moderator) In his latest book, The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East, Steven A. Cook highlights how the United States’ interests in the Middle East have begun to change and critically examines alternative approaches to U.S. Middle East policy. In the process, Cook highlights the challenges that policymakers and analysts confront in developing a new strategy for the United States in the Middle East against the backdrop of both political uncertainty in the United States and a changing global order. A conversation on these issues and more was moderated by AGSIW Senior Resident Scholar Hussein Ibish. agsiw.org