Steven A. Cook, the Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the United States’ past, present, and future policy in the Middle East.

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Mentioned on the Episode 

George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed

Steven A. Cook, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the Middle East

Steven A. Cook, The End of Ambition: America's Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East

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