The Obama Doctrine and the Middle East https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine-and-the-middle-east/

April 22, 2016 | Derek Chollet, Ellen Laipson, Michael Doran, Michael Mandelbaum
About the author: Michael Doran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East at Hudson Institute. The author of Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East (2016), he is also a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and a former senior director of the National Security Council. He tweets @doranimated. Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the author, most recently, of Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era (Oxford).

In response to Jeffrey Goldberg’s much-discussed foreign-policy interview with the president, Derek Chollet, Ellen Laipson, Michael Doran, and Michael Mandelbaum debate the implications of America’s diplomatic reorientation in the Middle East. (Moderated by Robert Satloff; video, 90 minutes; written summaries included.)

Read more on Washington Institute for Near East Policy: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/does-the-middle-east-still-matter-the-obama-doctrine-and-u.s.-policy