We want to flag everyone. We are more than 300 people registered. We will do our best to get in as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure before joining the council. The special assistant to the president in north africa in the gulf region. Responsible for relations. In the organization for security. In europe. Having written numerous books on u. S. Foreign policy. They recognize the release of the newest book. They hail it as the examination of u. S. Regime change efforts. For everyone interested in americas foreign policy. Let me vote for all of the members on todays call. You will have the opportunity to receive a copy of as well as two other csr books published this month. Let me welcome phil gordon. We have a great group. Let me say congratulations on the plication of the book. Why ts book at this time. This is aistory of u. S. Regime change. In tryg to learn from our hiory less we rept it. Half of the people on this call have been thinking about regime change around
In as many questions as possible. It is my great pleasure to introduce todays speaker, philip gordon. He is a senior fellow at the u. S. Foreign policy here at cfr. For joining the council fill a special assistant to the president and white house coordinator for the middle east, north africa in the gulf region under president obama. He previously served the assistant secretary of state for european affairs. He is responsible for the relations of more than 50 countries in europe and eurasia along with nato, eu, and the organization for security and cooperation in europe. Phil has also had a distinguished scholarly career having written and coauthored numerous books on u. S. Policy and foreign affairs. Today we are here to recognize his newest book, losing the long game, the false promise of regine change in the middle east. Former u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers hails it as an examination of u. S. Regime change efforts in the middle east. The journalist robin whit
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We are very honored by your presence and participation. The launch of the center is a historic moment for the program and for brookings. At a time of massive dislocation in the Global Economy, the need to improve policy is inclusive and sustainable. Policymakers and other people around the world have leadership on aspects of Sustainable Development. We are grateful to all of our partners whose support has been instrumental. A special thank you to richard who supports through the roundtable and Sustainable Development over the past several years have inspired the creation of the center. The launch of the center tsuldnt have been possible without the efforts of those that worked tirelessly so let me take a moment to recognize my colleagues and scholars including the director macarthur and the checks and Communications Team as well as the central Communications Team and importantly the commitment gof our president who is very passionate about Global Development. Thank you, john, for your
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to