President of people analytics. His work focuses on demistying peoples behaviors and opinions in complex societies and difficult contexts, such as iran. He holds degrees from Syracuse Universitys Maxwell School and a phd in policy studies from the university of Maryland College park. Following the flash talk, well begin our panel discussion, and ill introduce our panelists at that time. Unfortunately, Professor John st stimple, the former chief of the Tehran Embassy section, is unable to join us tonight. Please join me in welcoming the doctor. [ applause ] hello, hello. I appreciate the chance to be here. Hello to chicago. Its my first time here. Thanks for the welcome. [ applause ] oh, thank you. I am presenting to you a survey that has been jointly done between iran poll and Chicago Council on global affairs. Iranian Public Opinion four decades after the hostage crisis. Yeah, so iran poll. Independent company focusing on opinion polling, only on iran but from toronto, canada. Hello to
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Good judgment, im the Christopher Preble the Vice President for defense and Foreign Policy studies here art cato. Thank you for being here today. And welcome also those to watching online at cato. Org and i think time delay hello to those watching on cspan. Id like to extend fecial spasms to our outstanding conference staff here who do a terrific job organizing our events. Im joined on the stage today by my colleagues john glacier, and trevor thrall and were here with heath, director to thank you molds of policy change at new america. John, trevor and i are the coraw authorize offered this book, fuel to the fire. How trump made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can proffer. Copies are available for here sale at cato and your Favorite Book sellers. Im going to tell you about the book, even though you can probably guess at a lot of it from the subtitlele. It includes a discussion tot a spoiler, includes a discussion of trumps critique of u. S. Foreign policy , it inclu
Hurlbert, director ofpolicy change program new america. Trevor and i are the coauthors of this book , fuel to the fire, helpful made americas broken Foreign Policy even worse and how we can recover. Copies are available for sale here for actually go for those of you in attendance and for allyour favorite booksellers, those of you watching from our. Im going to tell you a little bit about the book even though you can probably guess a lot of it from the subtitle. Includes discussions, this is not a spoiler, includes a discussion of Donald Trumps chief of us Foreign Policy. Includes why we think, why we the authors think americas Foreign Policy was broken and that there is a better alternative than what President Trump has offered. So its my responsibility today to sort of set the stage and that involves a little bit of history which is my forte and a little bit of strategic analysis which is all three of our expertise. I go back to trumps major Foreign Policy address the mayflower hotel,