Podcasts about middle east policy studies

A discussion of how American and Middle East states' interests and behaviour affect the Israeli-Palestinian conflict historically and today. Cristina Gallach, former UN Under-Secretary-General and Former Spanish State-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, is the session's moderator. The panelists are Elham Fakhro, Hussein Ibish, Daniel Kurtzer and Nimrod Novik. Elham Fakhro is a Research Associate at the Chatham House Middle East and North Africa program and Research Fellow at Exeter University's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Daniel Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and is the former United States Ambassador to Israel and Egypt. Dr. Nimrod Novik is the former Senior Policy Advisor to the late Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and served as Special Ambassador of the State of Israel and as an Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council.

Today's guests: Daniel Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt and Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs discusses U.S. and Saudi Arabia relations and President Biden's upcoming trip to Riyadh, Bruce Percelay, chairman of the board of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute discusses the launch of a series of debates between Republican and Democratic Senators with the goal of reducing political divisions, and Bloomberg Politics Contributor Jeanne Sheehan Zaino and Republican Strategist Doug Heye discusses today's primary elections, President Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia and how Congress can find common ground on issues.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, BICOM's Samuel Nurding speaks with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer about the Biden administration's approach to the Middle East. Ambassador Kurtzer draws on his unique experience as the US Ambassador to Israel and Egypt to discuss the US role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the challenges of confronting Iran and reconstruction in Gaza, and Israel's relations with its neighbours in the region. Daniel C. Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs. During a 29-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Kurtzer served as the United States Ambassador to Israel and as the United States Ambassador to Egypt.

For decades, the conflict between Israel and Palestine has been one that has crossed borders and become of international interest. In this week’s episode, professors Jeremy Pressman and Mira Sucharov share, with singular knowledge, their point of view on the conflict—and the way forward. In conversation with Daniel C. Kurtzer, they examine the default use of military force on both sides. Pressman contends that this force has prevented peaceful resolutions in the past, and asserts that diplomacy is the only way forward, as he argues in his book The Sword Is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force. Sucharov brings personal experience from her book Borders and Belonging: A Memoir, vulnerably relating her search for a political and emotional home, one that led her to live in Israel for three years in her twenties. Join them for a raw and poignant conversation about conflict, diplomacy, and resolution—and stay in the know about what’s happening in this moment at Town Hall Seattle. Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics and co-author of Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace. Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science and University Chair of Teaching Innovation at Carleton University, Canada. She is author of Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement and The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, and co-editor of Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates and Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions. Daniel C. Kurtzer is Lecturer and the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt. He is co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East and The Peace Puzzle: America’s quest for Arab Israeli Peace, 1989–2011, and editor of Pathways To Peace: America and The Arab Israeli Conflict. Buy the Books: Borders and Belonging: A Memoir by Mira Sucharov and The Sword Is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis and the Limits of Military Force by Jeremy Pressman Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here. 

For decades, the conflict between Israel and Palestine has been one that has crossed borders and become of international interest. In this week’s episode, professors Jeremy Pressman and Mira Sucharov share, with singular knowledge, their point of view on the conflict—and the way forward. In conversation with Daniel C. Kurtzer, they examine the default use of military force on both sides. Pressman contends that this force has prevented peaceful resolutions in the past, and asserts that diplomacy is the only way forward, as he argues in his book The Sword Is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis, and the Limits of Military Force. Sucharov brings personal experience from her book Borders and Belonging: A Memoir, vulnerably relating her search for a political and emotional home, one that led her to live in Israel for three years in her twenties. Join them for a raw and poignant conversation about conflict, diplomacy, and resolution—and stay in the know about what’s happening in this moment at Town Hall Seattle. Jeremy Pressman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Middle East Studies at the University of Connecticut. He is author of Warring Friends: Alliance Restraint in International Politics and co-author of Point of No Return: The Deadly Struggle for Middle East Peace. Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science and University Chair of Teaching Innovation at Carleton University, Canada. She is author of Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement and The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, and co-editor of Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates and Methodology and Emotion in International Relations: Parsing the Passions. Daniel C. Kurtzer is Lecturer and the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University, and former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt. He is co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East and The Peace Puzzle: America’s quest for Arab Israeli Peace, 1989–2011, and editor of Pathways To Peace: America and The Arab Israeli Conflict. Buy the Books: Borders and Belonging: A Memoir by Mira Sucharov and The Sword Is Not Enough: Arabs, Israelis and the Limits of Military Force by Jeremy Pressman Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here. 

The Trump administration has departed from longstanding U.S. policies in the Middle East, relocating the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and cutting aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization. While Israel has normalized relations with some other countries in the region, it is unclear what the future is for a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians.Daniel C. Kurtzer joins Before the Ballot to consider the future of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel.ABOUT THE SHOWBefore the Ballot is a podcast series designed to educate voters before they cast their ballots this November. It features faculty at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The show is hosted by Elisabeth Donahue, associate dean of public affairs and communications. It is produced and edited by Henry Barrett '22 and B. Rose Huber, communications manager and senior writer. Sarah Binder, communications specialist, wrote these summaries.

The Trump administration has departed from longstanding U.S. policies in the Middle East, relocating the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and cutting aid to the Palestine Liberation Organization. While Israel has normalized relations with some other countries in the region, it is unclear what the future is for a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians. Daniel C. Kurtzer joins Before the Ballot to consider the future of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University and former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel. ABOUT THE SHOW Before the Ballot is a podcast series designed to educate voters before they cast their ballots this November. It features faculty at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The show is hosted by Elisabeth Donahue, associate dean of public affairs and communications. It is produced and edited by Henry Barrett ’22 and B. Rose Huber, communications manager and senior writer. Sarah Binder, communications specialist, wrote these summaries.

Guests: Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former US Ambassador to Israel, former US Ambassador to Egypt, and Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University, Avi Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, Matt Brooks, Republican strategist and Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Joel Rubin, Democratic strategist and former deputy assistant secretary for Legislative Affairs at the State Department, and Gregory Korte, Bloomberg National Political reporter.

Guests: Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, former US Ambassador to Israel, former US Ambassador to Egypt, and Lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University, Avi Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations, Matt Brooks, Republican strategist and Executive Director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Joel Rubin, Democratic strategist and former deputy assistant secretary for Legislative Affairs at the State Department, and Gregory Korte, Bloomberg National Political reporter.

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, President & Dean of Valley Beit Midrash, interviews Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, the S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (https://wws.princeton.edu/), on the topic of " Religion, Diplomacy, and Israel." DONATE: http://www.bit.ly/1NmpbsP For podcasts of VBM lectures, GO HERE: https://www.valleybeitmidrash.org/learning-library https://www.facebook.com/valleybeitmidrash

Of all subjects of scholarly inquiry, few could be more contentious than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How might we research and teach our way through it in an age of narrowing conversations? Two authors who have written extensively on the topic discuss their thoughts on engaging the history and contemporary politics of Palestine and Israel today. When seeking to reach a wider audience, what are the unwritten conventions (and expectations) that authors transgress at their peril? Exploring questions of identity, morality, authenticity, objectivity and the responsibility of those undertaking research to elucidate and inform, the panellists will draw on the challenges they have faced in seeking to make accessible, beyond academia, their most recent works. Seth Anziska will recount some of the reactions he encountered after publishing his book Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo last year, and Rosemary Hollis will talk about the responses she has encountered to the line of argument she develops in her new book Surviving the Story: The Narrative Trap in Israel and Palestine. (Speaker presentations for the first 55 minutes followed by a Q&A discussion). About the speakers: In her career Rosemary Hollis PhD has worked in academia and the ‘think tank’ community, focusing on the involvement of the EU, the US and the UK in conflicts in the Middle East. She was Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme for Palestinians and Israelis (2008-16) and Professor of Middle East Policy Studies (2012-18) at City, University of London. Before that, Rosemary was Director of Research (2005-08) and Head of the Middle East Programme (1995-2005) at Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in London. Seth Anziska is the Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations at University College London. His research and teaching focuses on Israeli and Palestinian society and culture, modern Middle Eastern history, and contemporary Arab and Jewish politics. He was a 2019 Fulbright Scholar at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and has held visiting positions at Dartmouth College, New York University, the London School of Economics, and the American University of Beirut. The discussion is chaired by Dr Zahera Harb, senior lecturer in International Journalism at City, University of London. Her recent publications include an edited collection titled Reporting the Middle East: the Practice of News in the 21st Century (IB Tauris 2017) and an edited collection with Dina Matar titled Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Palestine and Lebanon (IB Tauris 2013) and a monograph titled Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda Hezbollah and the Media (IB Tauris, 2011). She has published widely on Journalism and Politics in the Arab countries. She is Associate editor of the internationally renowned top ranking academic journal Journalism Practice. CBRL has partnered on this event with the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected in Israel's elections and will begin his fifth term in office. What's next for the country under his leadership?Sharing his response to this news in the audio clip below is Daniel Kurtzer, lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.Kurtzer served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and as U.S. ambassador to Israel (2001-2005).While U.S. media and others are reporting a clear victory for Netanyahu, Kurtzer's reaction suggests that Netanyahu's pathway toward a coalition may be complicated.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was reelected in Israel’s elections and will begin his fifth term in office. What’s next for the country under his leadership? Sharing his response to this news in the audio clip below is Daniel Kurtzer, lecturer and S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Kurtzer served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and as U.S. ambassador to Israel (2001-2005). While U.S. media and others are reporting a clear victory for Netanyahu, Kurtzer’s reaction suggests that Netanyahu’s pathway toward a coalition may be complicated.

This edition includes: following another year of violence and suffering in Syria and Yemen, Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at City University London, Omar Imady, Deputy Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at St Andrews University and Dr Tom Clonan, a military analyst, look at what the prospects for peace in the Middle East are; political journalist Jim Cusick looks at how the Government's Brexit negotiations went off the rails in 2018; author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall discusses his quest to find the perfect hangover cure, and Bill Whiteford looks back at the Empire Exhibition, held in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1938.

The Middle East: could you mention something more complicated, contentious, and uncertain? And now with Trump... In this edition of the podcast, I speak to Daniel C. Kurtzer, who from 1997 to 2001 was the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, and then from 2001 to 2005 the Ambassador to Israel. We talk about Jamal Khashoggi's killing and Saudi Arabia more broadly, continue into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the complexity of narratives surrounding it, and the overall importance of studying history. To conclude, we talk about being Jewish and a high level ambassador, a part that I really enjoyed. Amb. Kurtzer spent almost three decades in the Foreign Service (being a diplomat in the State Department, but at not appointed by the President and as a career), working in back channel negotiations between Syria and Israel, and as a planner and speech writer for Secretaries of States. In 2007, he was commissioner of the Israel Baseball League, an ultimately unsuccessful professional baseball league in Israel. Currently, Amb. Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. These are three books recommended if you are interested in learning more: The Peace Puzzle -Amb. Daniel Kurtzer--Co-Author The Peace to End All Peace -A History of the modern Middle East- by David Fromkin The Politics of Diplomacy -A Former Secretary of State's Memoir- by James Baker

On the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Professor Rosemary Hollis - a leading academic expert on the subject - gave a lecture at the British Academy in London, co-hosted by the Council for British Research in the Levant. Professor Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at the City University, and Member of the Council for British Research in the Levant.

The final round of armed forces redundancies have been announced…so what shape does this leave our Army in? The long road to peace in Syria – has the journey begun? Why the EU wants to send troops to the Central African Republic And ‘Row to Recovery' -  how four British soldiers completed the gruelling three thousand mile row across the Atlantic. PRESENTER: Kate GerbeauSTUDIO GUEST: BFBS's Defence Analyst Christopher Lee   OTHER INTERVIEWS:   BFBS Reporter James Hirst on redundanciesProfessor Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University. BFBS  reporter Cath Brazier

The final round of armed forces redundancies have been announced…so what shape does this leave our Army in? The long road to peace in Syria – has the journey begun? Why the EU wants to send troops to the Central African Republic And ‘Row to Recovery’ -  how four British soldiers completed the gruelling three thousand mile row across the Atlantic. PRESENTER: Kate GerbeauSTUDIO GUEST: BFBS’s Defence Analyst Christopher Lee   OTHER INTERVIEWS:   BFBS Reporter James Hirst on redundanciesProfessor Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University. BFBS  reporter Cath Brazier

SITREP trail 13th October The revolutionary forces in Libya are close to securing Sirte - but where is Gaddafi? How a message in a bottle helped the Royal Navy save a ship from piracy Why the prisoner exchange between Hamas and the Israelis is vital for the future of the Middle East And …. why Cyprus continues to be strategically important PRESENTER : Matt Teale STUDIO GUESTS : BFBS's defence analyst, Christopher Lee. INTERVIEWS WITH: Dr Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at City University at City University British Forces News & Sitrep presenter, Kate Gerbau in Cyprus Karen Jacques from Dryad Maritime Intelligence Services - who monitor the threat of piracy.

SITREP trail 13th October The revolutionary forces in Libya are close to securing Sirte - but where is Gaddafi? How a message in a bottle helped the Royal Navy save a ship from piracy Why the prisoner exchange between Hamas and the Israelis is vital for the future of the Middle East And …. why Cyprus continues to be strategically important PRESENTER : Matt Teale STUDIO GUESTS : BFBS’s defence analyst, Christopher Lee. INTERVIEWS WITH: Dr Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies at City University at City University British Forces News & Sitrep presenter, Kate Gerbau in Cyprus Karen Jacques from Dryad Maritime Intelligence Services - who monitor the threat of piracy.

In the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, Andrew Marr discusses foreign intervention with the Conservative MP Rory Stewart and the former intelligence officer, Frank Ledwidge. Stewart looks back at the conflict to ask whether simple notions of winning foreign wars is counterproductive, while Ledwidge turns a critical eye on the army's lack of strategic thinking which he argues led to catastrophic failures in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera discusses the role of the British secret service, from the Cold War days of spies lurking in the shadows, to the disaster of the 'dodgy dossier' on Iraq. And Dr Rosemary Hollis, Professor of Middle East Policy Studies, considers the impact of recent revelations of complicity with Gaddafi's regime, and how 9/11 has skewed international relations. Producer: Katy Hickman.