Event Summary
As key members of the UN Security Council continue to grapple over whether to use military force against Iraq, tensions among Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States are heightening. What does the rest of the world think? How will the Bush administration's position on Iraq affect its future relations with other countries?
At this press briefing, a panel of experts will discuss the diplomatic wrangling and how recent developments are being perceived by some of the key regions of the world. Arturo Valenzuela will discuss Latin America, Susan Rice will discuss Africa, Clifford Gaddy will address Russia and Eurasia, Philip Gordon will discuss France, and Shibley Telhami will discuss the Arab world.
At the briefing, Telhami, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and an expert on the Arab world, will release his new study of Arab attitudes toward U.S. engagement in Iraq. Completed in March, the survey polled the public in six countries—Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon, and Egypt—about their attitudes toward a number of issues, including U.S. policy on Iraq, their expectation for the Middle East after war
with Iraq, and which world leaders they most admired.