American Grand Strategy in West Asia

Chain Reaction by FPRI

Jun 8, 202639:54News & Politics

In this episode of Shifting Ground , Nick Gvosdev and Larry Rubin are joined by Mohammed Soliman, Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of West Asia: A New American Grand Strategy in the Middle East . Sol...

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