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Join CGD for a discussion with Rory Stewart on issues including the new UK Defense Security and Foreign Policy Review, the moves to reduce the UK’s ODA commitment from 0.7 percent of GDP, the merger of the UK’s Department for International Development and Foreign Office, Covid-19 and the global response, global policymaking around climate and aid effectiveness.
Rory Stewart, currently a Senior Fellow at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, was the UK Secretary of State for International development in 2019. Prior to that, Stewart served in a variety of roles including as Minister of the Environment, as Minister of State responsible for development policy in the Middle East and Asia and UK policy in Africa, as Minister of State for Justice, and as Chair of the House of Commons Defense Select Committee. Earlier in his career he served briefly as an infantry officer and then as a diplomat for the UK g
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Brief Analysis
Two former U.S. ambassadors and a Syrian opposition official examine the many diplomatic, geopolitical, and humanitarian lessons the conflict holds for the Biden administration.
On March 5, The Washington Institute held a virtual Policy Forum with Bassma Kodmani, Robert Ford, and James Jeffrey. Kodmani is a member of the Syrian Constitutional Committee and Drafting Committee and a founder of the opposition Syrian National Council. Ford, the U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2011-14, is a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and the Kissinger senior fellow at the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Jeffrey has served as U.S. special representative for Syria engagement (2018-2020) and deputy national security advisor (2007-2008); he currently chairs the Wilson Center’s Middle East Program. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks.