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PODCAST: Robert Malley, New President of the International Crisis Group

Robert Malley is the new president and CEO of the International Crisis Group. The International Crisis Group provides the public and policymakers with analysis of conflicts and potential ways out of conflict around the world. As regular listeners probably know,...

Episode 95: Daniel Byman Explains the USA-Saudi Relationship. (And Much More!)

Dan Byman was fresh out of school when he took a job as an analyst for the CIA. Byman was a generalist, and they put him on a backwater Persian gulf desk in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then...

How Dennis Ross Became America’s Middle East Peace Negotiator

Dennis Ross is an American diplomat best known for his role as the key mediator and facilitator of some of the most important Palestinian and Arab-Israeli peace agreements of the 1990s. He was Bill Clinton’s middle east envoy during the...

Why the UN is Liked In Africa, But Not So Much in the Middle East

Earlier this week, Gallup released the findings of a major global survey of 126 countries from 2007 to 2010, asking "do you approve or disapprove of the job performance of the leadership of the United Nations?" The results broke down along regional lines. Here's why.

Time for a Big Speech on the Middle East From President Obama

President Obama needs to step up big time. It is time he uses his greatest strength--his ability to orate -- to outlines a new American approach to the region.

Lebanon’s Party of God Challenges the Prime Minister

Hezbollah, "The Party of God", has led a walk out in Lebanon's parliament, causing the collapse of the government while Prime Minister Saad Hariri was meeting with President Obama. What's new about this latest political confrontation?

PODCAST: Robert Malley, New President of the International Crisis Group

Episode 95: Daniel Byman Explains the USA-Saudi Relationship. (And Much More!)

How Dennis Ross Became America’s Middle East Peace Negotiator

Why the UN is Liked In Africa, But Not So Much in the Middle East

Time for a Big Speech on the Middle East From President Obama

Lebanon’s Party of God Challenges the Prime Minister

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations