Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Iraq: Where Do We Go from Here?

VENUE:Merion Cricket Club

Iraq: Where Do We Go from Here?

| Middle East Program

About the Event

 

Iraq has been at the center of American foreign policy for over a quarter-century. Will it continue to dominate our attention and resources in the coming years as well? If so, how? Just as importantly, why? To answer these questions, we bring together two experts who have had some of the most unique and consequential experiences in Iraq over the past two decades.

 

Denise Natali has spent more time in Iraqi Kurdistan than almost any other U.S.-based expert and is a leading authority on Iraq's political economy. Natali is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) where she specializes on the Middle East, Iraq, trans-border Kurdish issues, and post-conflict stabilization.

 

Nada BakosNada Bakos was an analyst for the CIA and served as the agency's Chief Targeting Officer. Bakos is a highly-regarded national security expert with 20 years of in-depth knowledge in global intelligence. As CIA analyst, she was a key member of the team charged with analyzing the relationship between Iraq, al-Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks.

 

Samuel HelfontFPRI's Robert A. Fox Fellow Samuel Helfont will lead this exciting conversation. Helfont has worked on Iraq in various capacities inside and outside government, and he has spent years digging through the archives of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party.


 


Venue

Merion Cricket Club

325 Montgomery Avenue
Haverford. PA. US. 19041


Registration

Entire series (8 programs annually) is free for FPRI Members at the $500 level and above, or $50 per person, per session.

 

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Speakers

Private: Denise Natali - Dr. Denise Natali serves on FPRI's Board of Advisors and currently is serving at the National Defense University as a Distinguished Research Fellow with the Institute for National Strategic Studies. ; Panelist

Private: Nada Bakos

Private: Nada Bakos - Nada Bakos, a former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, is a Senior Fellow in the Program on National Security at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. ; Panelist

Samuel Helfont

Samuel Helfont - Samuel Helfont is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Middle East Program, and an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Policy at the Naval War College's program at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. ; Moderator