book launch

Ralph Alswang - Martin Indyk (l), Richard Haass, Gary Samore and David Gregory at the Saban-CFR book launch event.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC
On December 2, Brookings hosted the authors of Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President, Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass; Brookings’ Saban Center for Middle East Policy Director and project co-director Martin Indyk; and Council on Foreign Relations Director of Studies and project co-director Gary Samore. The discussion was moderated by David Gregory, NBC News Chief White House Correspondent and Host of MSNBC’s “1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
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Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Iran, Iraq, Transnational Security Threats
Final Report: Restoring the Balance

Reuters/Jason Reed - The White House is pictured after sunrise in Washington.
Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President is the final product of an eighteen month Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations project. This effort involved fifteen senior Middle East experts who joined together for the first time to conduct in-depth research, travel to the region and hold interviews with its leaders in order to develop a series of policy recommendations for President-elect Barack Obama.
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SPOTLIGHT: Middle East

Charlie Rose Show - Richard Haass (l), Charlie Rose and Martin Indyk discuss Middle East strategy.
Richard Haass and Martin S. Indyk, December 02, 2008
Martin Indyk and Richard Haass joined Charlie Rose to discuss the newly released Saban Center at Brookings-Council on Foreign Relations book Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President. They highlighted three major foreign policy challenges in the region that President-elect Obama will need to focus on and detailed some of the recommendations found within the book.
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Middle East, Arab-Israeli Relations, Iran, Syria, Diplomacy