Recent Events

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  America’s Role in a Changing Middle East

  On June 20, the Center for the National Interest hosted a panel discussion on America’s Role in a Changing Middle East. Speakers included Steven A. Cook, author of the recently released book, False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and African Studies at

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  Dealing with Dictators

  On June 19th, the Center for the National Interest hosted a panel discussion entitled “Dealing with Dictators.” Speakers included Mark Lagon, Chief Policy Officer of the Friends of the Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a former president of Freedom House, and a former Ambassador-at-Large leading the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking-in-Persons,

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  In Memoriam: Robert Leiken

  Robert Leiken was an impressive scholar and a wonderful colleague whom all of us at the Center for the National Interest will miss deeply. He was a rare original thinker who based his conclusions on a wealth of research that forced others—even others with very different perspectives—to take his views seriously. He was also a

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  Dinner with General Philip Breedlove

  On June 8, the Center for the National Interest hosted Gen. Philip Breedlove, USAF, Ret., former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, for a small, off-the-record dinner meeting. The group discussed the U.S. relationship with NATO, burden sharing within the alliance, and the challenges facing U.S.-Russia relations.

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  Preventive War: Does It Work?

  On June 6, the Center for the National Interest hosted a panel discussion entitled “Preventive war: does it work?”  Speakers included James Carafano, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Studies at the Heritage Foundation, and Michael O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dov Zakheim, Vice Chairman of the Center for the

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