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Strategy and Leadership: America's Core Challenges in the Middle East
Martin Indyk, U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, diagnosed the collapse of recent peace talks in a frank keynote address to the Institute's 2014 Weinberg Founders Conference. Watch his remarks and download a transcript. Also view other sessions, with speakers including Sen. Tim Kaine, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, and former French ambassador to Washington Jean-David Levitte.
The Pursuit of Middle East Peace: A Status Report
Read a transcript of Ambassador Indyk's remarks, including his Q&A session with Dr. Satloff.
Martin Indyk, special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations; vice president and director, foreign policy program, Brookings Institution (on leave)
Moderator: Robert Satloff, executive director, TWI
Assessing U.S. Policy across the Middle East
Elliott Abrams, former deputy national security advisor
Tim Kaine, United States senator (D-VA); chair, Senate subcommittee on the Near East
Jean-David Levitte, former French ambassador to the United States
James Steinberg, former deputy secretary of state
Moderator: Robert Satloff, executive director, TWI
A Conversation with Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak, former Israeli prime minister and defense minister, in a discussion with Dennis Ross, counselor and William Davidson distinguished fellow, TWI
Syria and Its Repercussions
Hanin Ghaddar, managing editor, NOW News (Lebanon)
Moderator: Andrew J. Tabler, senior fellow, TWI
Israeli-Palestinian Relations: Top-Down and Bottom-Up
Mohammed Dajani, professor of political science, al-Quds University, leader of recent Palestinian delegation to Auschwitz
Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog (IDF, ret.), Milton Fine international fellow, TWI
Moderator: David Pollock, Kaufman fellow, TWI
America's Shifting Energy Landscape and Middle East Policy
David Goldwyn, former State Department special envoy for international energy affairs, Obama administration
Elizabeth Rosenberg, director, Energy, Environment and Security Program, Center for a New American Security
Moderator: Simon Henderson, Baker fellow and director, Gulf and Energy Politics Program, TWI
Israel's Evolving Terrorist Threats from Sinai to Syria
Ehud Yaari, Lafer international fellow and commentator, Israeli TV 2
Aaron Y. Zelin, Richard Borow fellow, TWI
Moderator: Matthew Levitt, Fromer-Wexler fellow and director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, TWI