Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) Blog Initiates “The First 100 Days” Series

By SPME
September 19, 2008
Source: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)

At this very moment, the foreign policy teams of Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are planning their Middle East strategy. At this stage, it isn’t presumptuous to do so-to the contrary, it would be negligent not to. Papers are being refined, on Iraq, Iran, terrorism, Israel-Palestinians, Israel-Syria, energy, and more.

With that in mind, MESH devotes this week to a roundtable of its members on the theme “The First 100 Days.” MESH members have been asked these questions: What priorities should the next administration set for immediate attention in the Middle East? What should it put (or leave) on the back burner? Is there anything a new president should do or say right out of the gate? And if a president asked you to peer into your crystal ball and predict the next Middle East crisis likely to sideswipe him, what would your prediction be?

Contributors include: Daniel Byman, Mark T. Clark, Hillel Fradkin, Robert O. Freedman, ChuckFreilich, Adam Garfinkle, Josef Joffe, Mark N. Katz, Walter Laqeuer , Gal Luft, Jacqueline Newmyer, Steven Peter Rosen , Philip Carl Salzman and Michael Young.

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Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) Blog Initiates “The First 100 Days” Series

Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) Blog Initiates “The First 100 Days” Series

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