“Arab Stabilization Plan,” with Majid Jafar, March 14, 2012
“Libya’s Missing Weapons: Understanding Global Efforts to Control Conventional Arms,” with Assistant Secretary Andrew J. Shapiro, February 2, 2012
“An Economic Perspective on the Arab Spring One Year Later,”With Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Robert D. Hormats, January 23, 2012
Yemen: Recent
Developments and Internal Security, December 9, 2009
Mustafa Alani is the Program Director of Security and Terrorism Studies
and a Senior Advisor at the Gulf Research Center (GRC) located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
discuss his findings from recent travel in Yemen.
Turmoil in Yemen,
November 20, 2009
April Longley Alley, Research Associate at the National
Defense University,
joined us for a discussion on the deteriorating situation in Yemen.
Syria: From
Isolation to Acceptance? April 23, 2008
Speakers included Andrew Tabler, editor of Syria Today and former Fellow
at the Institute of Current World Affairs; Daniel Levy of the New America
Foundation; and Emile El-Hokayem of the Stimson Center.
Talk by Sheikha
Lubna Al Qassimi, March 12, 2007
Sheikha Lubna Al
Qassimi, the Minister of Economy and Planning of the United Arab Emirates described
the economic progress of the Emirates, arguing that the UAE had diversified its
economy over the past two decades based on lessons learned from previous
failures to capitalize on the oil boom of the 1970s.
Does a
Demographic Transition Promote a Democratic Transition? January 25, 2007
Richard
Cincotta’s presentation on demographics and democratic reform
The Challenge
of Dealing with Syria,
December 19, 2005
David Ignatius
of the Washington Post and Joshua Landis of
the University of
Oklahoma and Syriacomment.com
spoke about Syrian domestic and foreign developments.