American Middle East Strategy in the Trump Era https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/politics-current-affairs/2017/10/american-middle-east-strategy-in-the-trump-era/

October 30, 2017 | Michael Doran
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.

Discussing his and Peter Rough’s September essay in Mosaic, Michael Doran explains his concern that the Trump administration is repeating some of the mistakes of the Obama administration, allowing Iran and Russia to expand their influence at the expense of the U.S. and its allies. He lays out a realistic strategy that the U.S. can pursue in order to reverse course. (Interview by Jonathan Silver. Audio, 51 minutes. For streaming and downloading options, please click on the link below.)

Beginning on November 13, Michael Doran will be giving a series of monthly lectures in which he will address how every American president, from Harry Truman to Donald Trump, has understood and shaped America’s strategic relationship with Israel. Click here for more information and for a special invitation to Mosaic readers,

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