Videos

  • Interview: Dennis Ross Explains the Middle East

    The Middle East has become the cockpit of international relations in the past few years. The rise of the Islamic State, the collapse of Yemen and, above all, the tumult in Syria have upended the region and drawn in outside powers, including Russia. Is there a prospect of a peace in the Middle East? Or

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  • Event: Countdown to War

    On April 21, the Center hosted an event to discuss the new National Interest cover story “Russia and America: Stumbling to War,” by Graham Allison, Director of Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Dimitri K. Simes, President of the Center for the National Interest. The speakers cautioned against the unintentional escalation

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  • Event: The Bush Restoration

    On March 4, the Center hosted a lunch panel discussion on The National Interest’s March/April cover story “The Bush Restoration,” featuring the article’s author Sam Tanenhaus, a contributing columnist to Bloomberg View, and Henry Olsen, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. TNI’s editor Jacob Heilbrunn moderated. The panel discussed Jeb Bush’s

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  • Interview: Akio Takahara

    TNI Editor Jacob Heilbrunn speaks with Professor Akio Takahara of the University of Tokyo.

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  • Event: Russia’s Energy Sector and the Oil Price Collapse

    On February 24, 2015, the Center for the National Interest held a lunchtime event entitled Russia’s Energy Sector and the Oil Price Collapse. The discussion featured three energy experts including Dr. Tatiana Mitrova, the head of the Oil and Gas Department at the Energy Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Charles Ebinger, Senior

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