Headlines surrounding topics in the Middle East are regularly part of our daily news cycle. We are used to hearing about the region’s challenges and sometimes watch without fully understanding the entire situation. There's political turnover, volatile oil prices, Islamic extremism, and a refugee crisis that affects not only the Middle East but the entire world.
Join us as we explore the current hot spots in the Middle East and the U.S. policy implications for the new administration.
Richard K. Herrmann, PhD, Professor & Department Chair in the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, concentrates on international relations, international security, and political psychology. He currently also serves as the Interim Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and has served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning staff in Washington D.C.
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