The Middle East Initiative (MEI) series brings academics and practitioners together to examine new patterns of geopolitical competition, conflict, and cooperation across the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on how regional states and external powers are deploying news strategies, instruments, and technologies to influence events.
Events
Seminars
Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
Friday, November 20, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Pacific)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
CANCELED: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion and Collective Memory in the Middle East
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Iran and the Limits of Economic Statecraft: Sanctions, Energy, and the Effectiveness of Maximum Pressure
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Defector Militias as Tools of Social Fragmentation: Evidence from Ba‘thist Iraq and Sudan
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Israel and the Persian Gulf: New Relations for a Challenging New Era
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
The Strike on Qassem Soleimani: Implications for Iran, the Middle East and the World
Friday, January 10, 2020
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific)
Seminars
Conversation on Iraq and American Grand Strategy
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific)