At the United States Naval Academy in annapolis, and served as senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations in new york. A contributor to such publications as the new york times, the washington post, wall , newsweek,nal, time the london observer. Professor mandelbaum served for 23 years as the associate director of the Aspen Institute congressional project on American Relations with the former communist world. He serves on the board of advisors also the Washington Institute for near east Foreign Policy near east policy. A washingtonbased organization sponsoring research and public discussion on american policy towards the middle east. Born in 1946, professor mandelbaum is a graduate of yale college. He earned his masters degree at Kings College cambridge university, and his doctorate at harvard university. Professor mandelbaum is the or coauthor of numerous articles and essays, and 15 books, the nuclear question, the United States and 1976,r weapons 1946 to and the Nuclear Revolut
Region. Mumbai trading from 20 minutes. A rally of the first trading day of the week and the month, rather. Seng index and topix those climbing. We are talking about how the major markets reached today, and how it will react to the opec deal. Yesterday was a different day. There was a lot of momentum to the negative side of the story whether or not we will see a deal in saudi arabia. Perhaps they knew something. 1. 5 higher at the close. We will see how that opec deal affects the markets today. There is no trading in the United Arab Emirates markets, closed for martyrs day. I want to dive into this bloomberg charge. Bloomberg chart. That oil price as a result of that deal, we are seeing a shrinking oil. This is where investors spoil away the oil, thinking that in the future they will sell it for profit. To discuss between wti the discount between wti delivery has narrowed sense opec announced the first Production Cut in eight years. Checking on first word headlines from around the worl
Legalize casinos. And no where to go. Reported cases of child abuse are on the rise in japan and the vast majority of children taken into protective care end up in institutions. The United States Security Council has adopted a resolution to impose fresh sanctions on north korea. It takes aim at the countrys main sources of revenue and is the latest response to pyongyangs september nuclear test. Todays resolution, as many of you know, because youve been waiting for it for a while, is the product of nearly 12 painstaking weeks of diplomacy, and it results in a further tightening of the strongest sanctions regime the Security Council has imposed on any country in more than a generation. The talks were led by the United States and china. Members of the Council Unanimously approved the resolution. It slashes coal exports to less than half the current amount. China has been the biggest importer. Member countries wanted to close a loophole from the last resolution adopted in march. Countries
In revolt. I am pleased to have him at this table. Welcome. Congratulations on a mammoth undertaking. Knowing your background, it has been the focus of your life, why this now . Scott i have been reporting from the middle east for 25 aars, and i feel have reached crisis throughout the region now. Haverab spring revolutions transformed into something else. This is a Pivotal Moment to look at something that is happening throughout the region. Charlie lets look exactly at what happened. What caused the arab spring to happen . Scott so throughout the middle east, going back to, in some ways, to world war i, this is a colonial wars drawn after world war i, you had an entire region that really existed in a kind of political stagnation, a real stasis. And one thing after another, longterm dictators had been in power. One had been in power for 42 years. What actually triggered the arab spring, certainly a huge influence was the American Invasion of iraq in 2003. That represented a scrambling o
Congratulations on a mammoth undertaking. Knowing your background, it has been the focus of your life, why this now . Scott i have been reporting from the middle east for 25 years, and i feel have reached a crisis throughout the region now. The arab spring revolutions have transformed into something else. This is a Pivotal Moment to look at something that is happening throughout the region. Scott so throughout the middle east, going back to, in some ways, to world war i, this is a colonial wars drawn after world war i, you had an entire region that really existed in a kind of political stagnation, a real stasis. And one thing after another, longterm dictators had been in power. What actually triggered the arab spring, certainly a huge influence was the American Invasion of iraq in 2003. That represented a scrambling of the chessboard. So for the first time, in good ways as bad, i think the American Invasion of iraq, it brought what was possible to the region. Totalitarian regimes colla