institute features this event which feature several middle eastern events it s just over 90 minutes. good morning and thank you so much for joining us on this balmy january morning in washington. i would like to welcome you here today on behalf of the brooking institute for foreign policy, i m suzanne maloney and the deputy read directory for policy here at brookings. we are here today to launch a paper in tired islamic state press how governments use religion and foreign policy, authored by two of my colleagues, shadi hamid, senior fellow and peter mandeville who is a nonresident with the brookings policy and a senior research and a berkeley center for religion peace and world affairs for at least the past 40 years, ever since a mass political movement espousing the triumph of authority over a seemingly impregnable state, islam has loomed large as the driver of politics and security in the middle east in the broader muslim world. and by extension it has loomed large for am
good morning and thank you so much for joining us on this balmy january morning in washington. i would like to welcome you here today on behalf of the brookings institute for foreign policy, i m suzanne maloney i m the depth jury directory here at brookings. we are here today to launch a paper entitled islamic state crap how governors use state crap authored by two of my colleagues, shadi hamid senior fellow from the middle east policy and peter mandeville who is a senior fellow with brookings policy in the islamic world. and a senior research fellow at the berkeley center for religion, peace and world affairs at georgetown university. for at least the past 40 years, ever since a mass political movement resulted in the triumph over secular, and the seemingly impregnable state islam has loomed large as a driver of politics and security of the middle east in the broader muslim world. and by extension, it has loomed large for american foreign policy in the global economy. the
the deputy read directory for policy here at brookings. we are here today to launch a paper in tired islamic state press how governments use religion and foreign policy, authored by two of my colleagues, shadi hamid, senior fellow and peter mandeville who is a nonresident with the brookings policy and a senior research and a berkeley center for religion peace and world affairs for at least the past 40 years, ever since a mass political movement espousing the triumph of authority over a seemingly impregnable state, islam has loomed large as the driver of politics and security in the middle east in the broader muslim world. and by extension it has loomed large for american foreign policy and for the global economy. the interest in and to often anxiety over its long policy analysis and deliver relation with exponentially magnified by the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent american interventions and the subsequent military interventions in the middle east. too often, however in our
policy program. i m suzanne maloney for policy at brookings. islamist state craft, how governments use religion and foreign policy authored by two of my colleagues, a senior fellow from the middle east policy and peter mandeville a nonresident senior fellow with brookings project on u.s. relations in the islamic world and senior research fellow at berkley center for religion, peace affairs at georgetown university. for at least the past 40 years ever since a mass political movement espousing the triumph of the sacred authority over secular toppled the monarch and seemingly impregnable state, islam has loomed large as a driver of politics and security of the middle east and broader muslim world and by extension it s loomed large for american foreign policy and for the global economy. the interest in and too often anxiety over islam and policy analysis and deliberation was exponentially magnified by the 9/11 attacks and subsequent interventions in a series of military conflicts
today. i can say on behalf of the entire council we are so .hrilled to see you we are inspired by the energy you can feel in this room and the brilliant ideas that have been circulating through the panels in the hallways. your presence here today inside this room on such a beautiful california day, the doors are locked by the way, it is a testament to our quality of collective regard for the speaker today. engerman serves as chair of the department s history. did work inon history at records roy gardner who is here with us today. atearned his phd in history the university of california at berkeley where he worked with david oliver. first articles published by harvard university class in 2003 2 brought a claim. lauded as original, imagine will be conceived and important, the book of course one of the book award and the akira international book award. his second book, know your enemy , the rise and fall of america soviet expert was published in 2009 eliminating subjects betwe