Shaping a New Middle East Balance of Power

The Conflict Management Program and the Aljazeera Centre for Studies

 are pleased to invite you to

Shaping a New Balance of Power in the Middle East:

Regional Actors, Global Powers, and Middle East Strategy

Tuesday June 12, 2018 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20036

Kenney Auditorium

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The Gulf and the Middle East are suffering a paroxysm of conflict involving virtually all the regional states as well as the US and Russia and many different non-state actors. What dynamics are driving this chaos? What can be done to contain or reverse the damage? How might a new balance of power emerge?

9-9:30: Registration

9:30-9:45: Opening Remarks

Ø  Ezzedine Abdelmoula, Manager of Research, Aljazeera Centre for Studies, Aljazeera Media Network 

9:30-11:00: Dynamics of Political Geography in the Middle East

Ø  Chair:   Daniel Serwer, Director, SAIS Conflict Management Program

Ø  Ross Harrison, Non-resident Senior Fellow Middle East Institute

Ø  Kadir Ustun, Executive Director, SETA Foundation

Ø  Khalid al Jaber, Gulf International Forum

Ø  Suzanne Maloney, Deputy Director, Foreign Policy Program and Senior Fellow, Center for Middle East Policy and Energy Security and Climate Initiative, Brookings Institution

11:00-11:15: Coffee Break

11:15-12:45: Non-State Actors and Shadow Politics

Ø  Chair:   Paul Salem, Senior Vice President for Policy Research & Programs, Middle East Institute

Ø  Randa Slim, Director of Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute;  Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute

Ø  Fatima Abo Alasrar, Senior Analyst, Arabia Foundation

Ø Crispin Smith, Harvard Law School

Ø Anouar Boukhars, Non-Resident Scholar, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Associate Professor of International Relations, McDaniel College

12:45-1:30: Lunch

1:30-3:00: New Balance of Power

Ø  Chair:   Mohammed Cherkaoui, Aljazeera Centre for Studies, and George Mason University 

Ø  Jamal Khashoggi, independent writer

Ø  P. Terrence Hopmann, Professor of International Relations, SAIS, Conflict Management Program

Ø  Camille Pecastaing, SAIS, Middle East Studies 

Ø  Hussein Ibish, Senior Resident Scholar, Arab Gulf States Institution in Washington 

Tuesday June 12, 2018 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW

Washington, DC 20036

Kenney Auditorium

photo ID will be checked at the door

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