Ranked #1
Middle East Strategy with Dennis Ross
Middle East Strategy with Dennis Ross
How can policymakers deal with the urgent crises of the day without neglecting important issues of long-term strategy? A... Read more
8 May 2018
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31mins
Ranked #2
Hussein and Abdullah with Robert Satloff
Hussein and Abdullah with Robert Satloff
For two decades, rumors have swirled around the royal succession from Jordan’s King Hussein to his son, King Abdullah II... Read more
19 May 2020
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23mins
Ranked #3
The Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices - Strategy with Michael Singh
The Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices - Strategy with Michael Singh
Where does the Middle East fit into America's global strategy, and is the rise of Russian and Chinese great-power compet... Read more
4 Nov 2016
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38mins
Ranked #4
Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices with Amb. James Jeffrey
Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices with Amb. James Jeffrey
When the forty-fifth president of the United States gets down to work on January 21, 2017, the new commander in chief wi... Read more
21 Sep 2016
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27mins
Ranked #5
Decision Points Episode 1 with Michael Oren
Decision Points Episode 1 with Michael Oren
"Decision Points" is a new Washington Institute podcast that provides fresh insights into critical moments in the U.S.-I... Read more
31 Oct 2019
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32mins
Ranked #6
The Abbas-Trump Visit with Ghaith al-Omari, Ehud Yaari, David Makovsky, and Dennis Ross
The Abbas-Trump Visit with Ghaith al-Omari, Ehud Yaari, David Makovsky, and Dennis Ross
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Washington, DC, for only the second time since 2010, and meets with President Tru... Read more
2 May 2017
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48mins
Ranked #7
The Qatar Crisis with Lori Plotkin Boghardt
The Qatar Crisis with Lori Plotkin Boghardt
Gulf politics scholar and former intelligence analyst Lori Plotkin Boghardt explains the Qatar crisis - what it is, why ... Read more
20 Jul 2017
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25mins
Ranked #8
Airstrikes on Syria
Airstrikes on Syria
In military terms, what did the April 13 allied airstrikes on Syria accomplish? Will deterring the Assad regime from usi... Read more
16 Apr 2018
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26mins
Ranked #9
Vision 2030 and the Saudi Future with Simon Henderson
Vision 2030 and the Saudi Future with Simon Henderson
Donald Trump is making his first foreign trip as president to the Middle East, with his initial stop in Saudi Arabia. Pr... Read more
19 May 2017
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31mins
Ranked #10
Erdogan's Empire with Soner Cagaptay
Erdogan's Empire with Soner Cagaptay
"Turkey more isolated, more alone, and more exposed to foreign policy threats than it has been for decades if not centur... Read more
22 Sep 2019
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24mins
Ranked #11
Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices with Ambassador Dennis Ross
Middle East 2017: Challenges and Choices with Ambassador Dennis Ross
"Syria is going to hit the next president very hard," warns Ambassador Dennis Ross. A veteran of five administrations, u... Read more
6 Oct 2016
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29mins
Ranked #12
Taking Stock of U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11 with LTG Michael K. Nagata
Taking Stock of U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11 with LTG Michael K. Nagata
U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael Nagata, director of strategic planning at the National Counterterrorism Center, del... Read more
27 Jul 2018
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1hr 29mins
Ranked #13
Middle East Policy on Capitol Hill with Dana Stroul
Middle East Policy on Capitol Hill with Dana Stroul
Dana Stroul, The Washington Institute's newest research fellow, is a veteran Pentagon and U.S. Senate foreign policy sta... Read more
18 Jan 2019
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26mins
Ranked #14
The 'Shia Crescent' and Iranian Influence
The 'Shia Crescent' and Iranian Influence
What is the Shia Crescent, and how does Iran’s government exploit it to spread its influence and sow division across the... Read more
30 Jan 2018
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17mins
Ranked #15
Israeli Security Today with Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, IDF (ret.)
Israeli Security Today with Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, IDF (ret.)
Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkote, IDF (ret.) delivered the 2019 Zeev Schiff Memorial Lecture on Middle East Security earlier this... Read more
30 May 2019
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25mins
Ranked #16
Preventing a Third Lebanon War
Preventing a Third Lebanon War
Functioning as a state within the Lebanese state, Hezbollah has accumulated more rockets than many European militaries. ... Read more
26 Oct 2017
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22mins
Ranked #17
The UN's Assessment of ISIS & al-Qaeda with Edmund Fitton-Brown
The UN's Assessment of ISIS & al-Qaeda with Edmund Fitton-Brown
The head of the UN team charged with monitoring each group assesses their prospects for bouncing back and recommends fur... Read more
14 Feb 2020
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42mins
Ranked #18
Israeli National Security with Maj. Gen. Yair Golan
Israeli National Security with Maj. Gen. Yair Golan
On September 7, distinguished Israeli general Yair Golan, who recently completed service as the IDF’s deputy chief of st... Read more
14 Sep 2017
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #19
Northwest Africa with Sarah Feuer
Northwest Africa with Sarah Feuer
The countries of northwest Africa – Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria – may look like islands of stability in a sea of Middl... Read more
17 Mar 2017
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27mins
Ranked #20
U.S. Iran Policy with Michael Singh
U.S. Iran Policy with Michael Singh
On October 13, President Trump announced a new Iran strategy, including decertifying the 2015 nuclear deal and asking fo... Read more
17 Oct 2017
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26mins