DNC: Can the Next President Make the Middle East Irrelevant?

Panelists will discuss the challenges the next president will face in building a new equilibrium in the Middle East.

The dialogue will be moderated by Steve Clemons and will be advanced by five short provocations delivered by foreign policy experts.

Light breakfast fare and coffee will be served beforehand.

Participants

• Senator John Kerry (D-MA) (audio)
  Chairman, Subcommittee on Near East Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. Senate
  Former Democratic Candidate for President of the United States

• Joschka Fischer (audio)
  Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany

• The Hon. Mel Levine
  Former U.S. Representative (D-CA)
  Middle East Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Barack Obama

• Anne-Marie Slaughter (audio)
  Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

• Walter Isaacson
  President, Aspen Institute
  Former Chairman & CEO, CNN
  Former Editor, Time Magazine

Panelists

• Steve Coll
  Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
  Former Managing Editor, Washington Post
  Author, The Bin Ladens
  President and CEO, New America Foundation

• Daniel Levy
  Former Israel Negotiator, Taba and Oslo Accords
  Principal Drafter/Israel, Geneva Accord
  Senior Fellow and Director of the Middle East Initiative, New America Foundation
  Senior Fellow and Director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative, The Century Foundation.

• The Hon. Rob Malley
  Director, Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group
  Former Special Assistant to President Bill Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs

• James Zogby
  President, Arab American Institute

• Steve Clemons
  Director of the American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
  Publisher, The Washington Note

Related Links

• MiddleEastTaskForce.org