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SUMMARY:Assad’s Downfall and Its Impact on Iran\, Russia and Turkey
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe transcript will be available here  \nAssad’s Downfall and Its Impact on Iran\, Russia and Turkey \nFeaturing: Professor Stephen Blank \nPlease note change of date: Monday\, December 16\, 2024 \nTime: 12 noon \nAfter over 52 years of the reign of the House of Assad in Syria\,  and a 13-year civil war\, the Iranian and Russian backed regime has collapsed. What exactly does this mean for the Islamic Republic of Iran\, for Putin’s Russia and for Erdogan’s Turkey?  Who are the real winners and losers in this high-stake game of three dimensional chess? What does this mean  for the survival of the Christians\, the Kurds and other minority groups? What role should the United States play in all of this\, if any? What role should Israel play\, if any? \nHere to discuss this is Professor Stephen Blank \nAbout Our Speaker: Dr. Stephen J. Blank is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program. He has published over 900 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian\, U.S.\, Asian\, and European military and foreign policies\, testified frequently before Congress on Russia\, China\, and Central Asia\, consulted for the Central Intelligence Agency\, major think tanks and foundations\, chaired major international conferences in the U.S. and in Florence; Prague; and London\, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the U.S. and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published or edited 15 books\, most recently Russo-Chinese Energy Relations: Politics in Command (London: Global Markets Briefing\, 2006). He has also published Natural Allies? Regional Security in Asia and Prospects for Indo-American Strategic Cooperation (Carlisle\, PA: Strategic Studies Institute\, U.S. Army War College\, 2005). He is currently completing a book entitled Light From the East: Russia’s Quest for Great Power Status in Asia to be published in 2014 by Ashgate. Dr. Blank is also the author of The Sorcerer as Apprentice: Stalin’s Commissariat of Nationalities (Greenwood\, 1994); and the co-editor of The Soviet Military and the Future (Greenwood\, 1992).
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/assads-downfall-and-its-impact-on-iran-russia-and-turkey/
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SUMMARY:Russia\, Israel\, and the War with Hamas
DESCRIPTION:  \n[READ TRANSCRIPT HERE] \n  \nThe relationship between Moscow and Jerusalem has gone through many permutations. The Kremlin had initially allied itself with Yasser Arafat and other revolutionary groups\, and during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War\, Russia allied itself with the Arab states\, with some Sovietologists even arguing that Moscow had encouraged and escalated tensions helping to provoke the 6 Day War. In the last decade\, the relationship between Israel and Russia seemed to reach a status quo. When Putin invaded Syria in 2015\, he seemed to allow Israel into their airspace\, primarily for self-defensive operations. \nWhen Russia invaded Ukraine\, Israel walked a very fine line\, diplomatically supporting Ukraine but refusing to impose financial sanctions on Russia. \nHowever\, since Hamas’ brutal attacks on Israel on October 7th\, relations between Moscow and Jerusalem have been radically upended. On October 26th\, shortly after the October 7th massacre\, leading Hamas officials\, including Abu Marzouk\, visited Moscow. On November 2nd\, the Russian Ambassador to the UN\, Vasily Nebenzia\, declared in a speech to the General Assembly that “Israel has no right to defend itself. Since then\, Prime Minister Netanyahu has grouped Russia together with its other existential enemies\, including Iran\, Hamas\, and Hezbollah. \nWhat is Russia’s role in this new world order? What does Iran provide to Russia\, and what is Russia getting out of its relationship with Iran and its proxy terrorist groups? How is the United States to respond? \nTo answer these questions and more\, come hear Dr. Stephen Blank. \nAbout the Speaker: Dr. Stephen Blank is an internationally recognized expert on Russian foreign and defense policies and international relations across the former Soviet Union.  He is also a leading expert on European and Asian security\, including energy issues.  Since 2020 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute www.fpri.org.  In 2020-21 he also was a Senior Expert for Russia at the U.S. Institute of Peace  From 2013-2020 he was a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council\, www.afpc.org From 1989-2013 he was a Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania.  Dr. Blank has been Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute since 1989.  In 1998-2001 he was Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research at the War College. \nDr. Blank has consulted for the CIA\, major think tanks and foundations\, chaired major international conferences in the USA and abroad In Florence\, Prague\, and London\, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the United States and abroad.  He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published over 1300 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian\, U.S.\, Asian\, and European military and foreign policies\, including publishing or editing 15 books\, testified frequently before Congress on Russia\, China\, and Central Asia for business\, government\, and professional think tanks here and abroad on these issues.  He has also appeared on CNN\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, CNBC Asia\, and is a regular guest on VOA. \nPrior to his appointment at the Army War College in 1989 Dr. Blank was Associate Professor for Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine\, Research\, and Education of Air University at Maxwell AFB.  He also held the position of 1980-86: Assistant Professor of Russian History\, University of Texas\, San Antonio\, 1980-86\, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian history\, \nUniversity of California\, Riverside\, 1979-80. \nDr. Blank’s M.A. and Ph.D. are in Russian History from the University of Chicago. His B.A is in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/russia-israel-and-the-war-with-hamas/
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SUMMARY:The Complicated and Dangerous Russia\, China\, Iran Alliance
DESCRIPTION:  \nRead Transcript Here \n  \nAs geopolitical changes take place across the globe\, in great part due to ambiguous and weakened U.S. foreign policy\, dangerous alliances are forming that are beginning to upend not just regional balances of power\, but America’s superpower status and U.S. national security more generally. Not only are the virulently anti-American Russia\, China\, and Iran each individually taking advantage of U.S. appeasement\, isolationist tendencies\, and foreign policy disasters such as the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and failure to properly prepare for the invasions of Ukraine and coup in Niger\, but these totalitarian states are forming political\, economic\, and military alliances that will pose dangerous challenges to the U.S. if it does not alter course quickly. To put it in pop culture terms\, as historian\, academic\, and Wall Street Journal columnist Walter Russell Mead recently wrote\, “Too many Americans still think we are living in Barbie’s world\, not Oppenheimer’s.” Join us for a discussion of these complicated foreign policy challenges and dangerous geopolitical alliances with the always brilliant Victoria Coates\, Vice President of the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. \nAbout the Speaker: Victoria Coates is Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Coates is an academic and policy maker with senior experience across the U.S. government in the Congress\, White House\, and Department of Energy. She previously served as a Senior Fellow in international relations and national security in Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom\, where she focused on the Middle East and North Africa\, U.S. energy security and strategy\, and countering the threat from the People’s Republic of China. \nCoates served as the Director of Research in (former) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s personal office\, joined (then) Governor of Texas Rick Perry’s primary campaign for President in 2011 as a Senior Advisor\, and continued as a consultant to Governor Perry on foreign policy until 2013\, when she accepted the position of Senior Advisor for National Security in Senator Ted Cruz’s office. \nCoates joined (then) President Elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team for the National Security Council staff in 2016\, and following the Inauguration\, she was appointed to the NSC as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Communications. Coates subsequently served as Senior Director for International Negotiations and for Middle Eastern Affairs\, before being named Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle Eastern and North African Affairs in 2019. \nAfter moving to the Middle Eastern Affairs Directorate in 2018\, Coates developed the concept of the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA)\, designed to unite Saudi Arabia\, UAE\, Oman\, Bahrain\, Qatar\, Kuwait\, Jordan\, and Egypt in security\, economic and energy cooperation under U.S. leadership to expand U.S. regional influence and increase burden sharing. She maximized the historic U.S. investment in Israel\, collaborating with Congress and the State Department to relocate the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and opposing attempts by malign actors to marginalize the Jewish state while working to integrate Israel into the Middle East\, which culminated in the Abraham Accords with UAE and Bahrain. \nCoates also took the NSC lead on the imposition of unprecedented U.S. economic sanctions on Iran in 2018\, working across the U.S. government and with regional partners to ensure the effectiveness of the sanctions\, and partnering with Saudi Arabia to ensure increased U.S. and Saudi oil production would replace supply impacted by the sanctions\, which successfully mitigated projected spikes in energy markets. \nIn early 2020\, Coates transferred to the Department of Energy to advise Secretary Brouillette on national security issues and act as his personal representative in the Middle East and North Africa. In the course of this work\, she promoted the United States as an energy superpower\, broadly advocated for U.S. industry as the partner of choice for up and downstream projects Africa during extended travel in Saudi Arabia and UAE\, coordinated with Congress and DoE in the aftermath of the energy market crisis in April 2020 to promote stability and recovery\, and supported U.S. observer status in the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum. \nIn addition\, Coates prioritized protection of U.S. energy industry security and intellectual property across the Middle East\, working with regional partners to establish mechanisms curtailing investment of untrusted vendors\, primarily Chinese state-owned entities\, that would impact future collaboration with the U.S. Coates also engaged regional partners on critical infrastructure security\, encouraging cooperation between Dragos and Saudi Arabia on cyber-security platforms supported by the Department of Energy\, and overseeing collaboration between the Idaho National Lab and UAE on cyber-security for the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant. \nAt the conclusion of the Trump administration\, Coates became the Director of Middle Eastern Programs at the Center for Security Policy\, then a Distinguished Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council. In the course of this work\, Coates has published on a broad range of national security topics in outlets such as Bloomberg\, The Daily Mail\, The Federalist\, FoxNews.com\, The Hill\, The Jerusalem Post\, National Review\, The New York Post\, Newsweek\, The Washington Post\, The Washington Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. She also appears regularly on the BBC\, Fox News\, the Fox Business Network\, and Newsmax. \nCoates is the author and presenter of dozens of publications and conference papers worldwide on the intersections of art and history\, including David’s Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art (Encounter Books\, 2016) and the forthcoming Seeing the Light: A History of Christianity in Twelve Works of Art (under contract with Encounter Books)\, which are part of a projected trilogy on the key tenets of Western Civilization: democracy\, the Judeo-Christian moral code\, and the primacy of the individual.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-complicated-and-dangerous-russia-china-iran-alliance/
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SUMMARY:The Judicial Reform Movement in Israel: Facts vs. Hyperbole
DESCRIPTION:  \nRead Transcript here \n  \nAs Israeli streets continue to erupt in protest over proposed judicial reforms and the passage of a new law addressing the Supreme Court’s “reasonableness” standard\, the Israeli and American left\, including former Israeli Prime Ministers leading the protests\, Democrats in Congress\, American Jewish organizations\, and international media are united in cries of democracy on the brink\, an attempted coup by the Netanyahu governing coalition\, and impending totalitarianism. All of these claims are exaggerations designed to prevent the Netanyahu government\, duly elected by the Israeli citizenry\, from moving forward with its campaign promises but they are worse than that. The hyperbolic rhetoric and accompanying protests are having great implications on the ability of the Israeli government\, medical institutions\, military\, and basic civil services from functioning leading to dangerous strife and long-term damage to the Jewish homeland\, all while the international community\, including Israel’s enemies\, look on drawing their own conclusions. Threats of military reservists retiring and refusing to serve\, doctors leaving the country\, tech companies pulling out\, and other damaging steps being taken by angry leftists seeking to save their democracy are reported incessantly by both Israeli and American media outlets portraying a dire situation for the Jewish state. Join us for an in-depth discussion with international law expert\, Avi Bell\, and prolific journalist\, Jonathan Tobin\, to understand the history of Israel’s judicial system\, what the judicial reform proposals actually are\, and what they would change in the Israeli government’s day-to-day operations\, and what the protests are really about and their implications on the survival of Israel’s democratically elected government and well-being more generally. \nAbout the Speakers:  \nAvi Bell is an Israeli Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Bell received his B.A. and J.D. from the University of Chicago\, and his S.J.D. from Harvard. He interned in the office of Israeli Supreme Court judge Mishael Cheshin. \nIn addition\, Bell frequently writes about the Arab-Israeli conflict. He also debated Richard Goldstone in a debate at Stanford Law School entitled “The Goldstone Report and the Application of International Law to the Arab-Israeli Conflict\,” where a few days later\, Goldstone said that “contrary to the report’s assertions\, Israel did not intentionally target civilians.” \nIn 2006\, Bell criticized Human Rights Watch for its reports on the Second Lebanon War\, claiming that the organization’s claims “mislead readers and betray … bias\,” and that “HRW investigation [in Srifa\, Lebanon] was either professionally incompetent or a complete fabrication” and “nothing more than window dressing for predetermined anti-Israel conclusions.” Human Rights Watch responded by claiming that Bell “displays a curious ignorance about even the basic requirements of international humanitarian law” However\, a 2007 report of Human Rights Watch admitted that its “allegation [of criminality in Srifa] turned out to be wrong.” The report stated that “eyewitnesses were not always forthcoming about the identity of those that died\, and in the case of Srifa\, misled our researchers … a visit to the graveyard made it possible to establish that most of those killed in Srifa were actually combatants\,” and concluding that “further Human Rights Watch investigations into a deadly strike at Srifa established that an Israeli attack there killed 17 combatants and five civilians on July 19\, not the 26 civilians claimed in Fatal Strikes” and “Human Rights Watch regrets the serious inaccuracy in its initial Fatal Strikes report.” \nBell was formerly a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He currently teaches classes on property and intellectual property at University of San Diego School of Law\, and on property\, intellectual property and public international law at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Bell also serves as Senior Fellow at the Kohelet Policy Forum. \nJonathan S. Tobin is Editor-in-Chief of the Jewish News Syndicate — JNS.org — an international wire service covering the Jewish world and Israel. He’s also a senior contributor for The Federalist and a columnist for Newsweek\, the New York Post\, Haaretz and Israel Hayom\, as well as a regular contributor for other publications such as The Washington Examiner and Commentary magazine. He covers the American political scene\, foreign policy\, the U.S.-Israel relationship\, Middle East diplomacy and the Jewish world. \nPrevious to becoming editor of JNS\, Mr. Tobin was executive editor\, senior online editor and chief political blogger for Commentary magazine. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia and editor of the Connecticut Jewish Ledger. \nMr. Tobin has won more than 50 awards including Top Columnist for Jewish publications ten times\, most recently in 2018 and 2019. He appears regularly on television commenting on politics in the United States and Israel\, foreign policy and Jewish affairs\, and lectures on college campuses and to Jewish communities. \nMr. Tobin was born in New York City\, attended local schools and studied history at Columbia University.
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SUMMARY:The Two State Solution: What the Average Israeli Knows\, but the Average American Refuses to Acknowledge
DESCRIPTION:  \nRead Transcript Here \n  \nGoing back almost 30 years\, on September 13\, 1993\, there was a tremendous amount of excitement in both the Israeli and the American Jewish populations. In a ceremony replete with lofty\, inspiring speeches and the Marine Corps band band\, Yasser Arafat\, the grand-daddy of twentieth-century terrorism\, airplane and bus hijackings\, and school massacres\, shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. \nThis was the date of the signing of the Oslo Accords\, a document that was predicated around the premise of “land for peace.” \nHowever\, this premise was summarily rejected by repeatedly generous offers to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak on July 25\, 2000\, and by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on September 16\, 2008. \nAnd as the years ensued\, the Israeli Jewish population has been subjected to repeated waves of terrorism\, including a very recent wave of near-daily terrorism coming out of Judea and Samaria\, or the West Bank. Since September 13\, 1993\, at least 1\,670 Israeli civilians have been murdered by suicide bombings\, automobile rammings\, knifings\, shootings\, and various other forms of terrorism. \nAs the Israeli people may very well be divided about the controversial issue of judicial reform\, they are united in the notion that there is simply no one to talk to on the Palestinian side and that the two-state solution is nothing more than a lovely\, comforting fairy tale. \nHowever\, most American Jews desperately cling to the notion that the Israelis have a reasonable negotiator on the Palestinian side\, and that there will be a two-state solution. \nWhy have American Jews clung to the two-state solution\, against the brutal reality that Israelis must confront? Where is the disconnect? Here to answer is Caroline Glick. \nAbout the Speaker: Caroline B. Glick is senior contributing editor at JNS and a senior columnist at JNS and Newsweek. She is also a diplomatic commentator at Israel’s Channel 14. Glick also serves as senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington\, DC and a lecturer at Israel’s\nCollege of Statecraft in Jerusalem. Glick is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for\nPeace in the Middle East and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. A widely sought-after lecturer\, Glick has briefed policymakers from Washington to Canberra\, military commanders in Israel and the U.S. and general audiences worldwide. She has received multiple awards for her journalism. As a captain in the IDF from 1994-1996\, Glick was a core member of Israel’s negotiating team with the PLO and served as assistant foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from 1997-1998. She is the author of The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East\, and Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. Glick lives in Efrat with her husband Shimon Suissa and their sons Yoav and Shilo.
URL:https://emetonline.org/event/the-two-state-solution-what-the-average-israeli-knows-but-the-average-american-refuses-to-acknowledge-2/
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SUMMARY:Russia's Current Role in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:  \nRead Transcript Here \n  \nJoin us for an engaging EMET webinar as we explore Russia’s Role in the Middle East with the esteemed Dr. Stephen Blank. In this enlightening discussion\, we will delve into the current status of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on the region. Dr. Blank will shed light on how the war has influenced Russian foreign policy in Syria\, Israel\, and Iran. Uncover the historical development of Russia’s role in the Middle East\, drawing parallels to Soviet foreign policy. Discover how the Soviet Union’s perception of Israel as a Western imperialist outpost may have shaped Russia’s current view of Israel. \nWe will also explore President Putin’s relationship with the Russian Jewish community and discuss the significance of Israeli relations with Azerbaijan. Additionally\, we’ll examine the implications of Israel’s new embassy in Turkmenistan\, situated just 20km from the Iranian border\, and explore how Muslim republics beyond the Iron Curtain have a different historic perspective towards Israel due to their experiences with political Islam. Don’t miss this thought-provoking webinar that promises to unravel the complexities of Russia’s Role in the Middle East. \nAbout the Speaker: Stephen Blank is an internationally recognized expert on Russian foreign and defense policies and international relations across the former Soviet Union. He is also a leading expert on European and Asian security\, including energy issues. Since 2020 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute www.fpri.org. In 2020-21 he also was a Senior Expert for Russia at the U.S. Institute of Peace From 2013-2020 he was a Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council\, www.afpc.org From 1989-2013 he was a Professor of Russian National Security Studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College in Pennsylvania. Dr. Blank has been Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute since 1989. In 1998-2001 he was Douglas MacArthur Professor of Research at the War College. \nDr. Blank has consulted for the CIA\, major think tanks and foundations\, chaired major international conferences in the USA and abroad In Florence\, Prague\, and London\, and has been a commentator on foreign affairs in the media in the United States and abroad. He has also advised major corporations on investing in Russia and is a consultant for the Gerson Lehrmann Group. He has published over 1300 articles and monographs on Soviet/Russian\, U.S.\, Asian\, and European military and foreign policies\, including publishing or editing 15 books\, testified frequently before Congress on Russia\, China\, and Central Asia for business\, government\, and professional think tanks here and abroad on these issues. He has also appeared on CNN\, BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, CNBC Asia\, and is a regular guest on VOA. \nPrior to his appointment at the Army War College in 1989 Dr. Blank was Associate Professor for Soviet Studies at the Center for Aerospace Doctrine\, Research\, and Education of Air University at Maxwell AFB. He also held the position of 1980-86: Assistant Professor of Russian History\, University of ​ Texas\, San Antonio\, 1980-86\, and Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian history\, University of California\, Riverside\, 1979-80. \nDr. Blank’s M.A. and Ph.D. are in Russian History from the University of Chicago. His B.A is in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
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