Joe Sestak, Jr. is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represented Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district from 2007 until 2011. A former three star admiral, Sestak is the highest ranking military official ever elected to Congress. Sestak…
Conducted by Justin Schuster Karam Nachar is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. His research and writing focuses on the cultural and political history of the Levant in the twentieth century. Raised in Aleppo, Mr. Nachar has close connections to…
By Harrison Monsky George Perkovich is Vice President for Studies and Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has focused on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, particularly with respect to South Asia and Iran….
Conducted by Geng Ngarmboonanant Al-Jazeera has been at the forefront of reporting on the Arab Spring, and is widely credited for its in-depth, unbiased and often courageous journalism. In fact, Al-Jazeera itself has been cited as one of the factors…
Professor Michael Mandelbaum is the Director of the American Foreign Policy program at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World’s Government in the Twenty-first Century. He graduated from Yale…
Joshua Landis is the director of the Center of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Landis writes “Syria Comment,” the premier blog on Syria. He frequently consults with the…
Professor Ellen Lust currently works in Yale University’s Department of Political Science as an Associate Professor, with a focus on political structure and development. Having received an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, she has written…
Conducted by Nick Rugoff and Christopher Howell Paul Pillar is a 28-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in which his last position was National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia. He is currently a visiting…
