The Middle East Challenge, With Steven A. Cook and Amy Hawthorne (Election 2024, Episode 4)

The President’s Inbox

Council on Foreign Relations

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🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei senior fellow for Middle East and Africa studies at CFR, and Amy Hawthorne, independent consultant on the Middle East, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the widening war in the Middle East and the challenges it poses for the United States. This episode is the fourth in a special TPI series on the U.S. 2024 presidential election and is supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Mentioned on the Episode Steven A. Cook, The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East Jake Sullivan, “The Sources of American Power,” Foreign Affairs The U.S. Election and Foreign Policy, CFR.org For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/tpi/middle-east-challenge-steven-cook-and-amy-hawthorne-election-2024-episode-4

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0:00.0	Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Marion David Boy's Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the fourth episode in a special 2024 U.S. election series here on the president's inbox. From now until election day,
0:23.8	I will be sitting down with experts to unpack some of the most pressing challenges in the
0:28.5	next president's foreign policy inbox. This week's topic is the Middle East challenge.
0:46.3	With me discuss recent events in the Middle East and the challenges it poses for the United States are Amy Hawthorne and Stephen Cook. Amy is a Middle East expert who now works as an independent consultant for various non-governmental organizations.
0:53.3	Most recently, she was Deputy Director for Research
0:56.2	at the Project on Middle East Democracy. She was also previously a senior fellow of the Rafi
1:02.5	Kariri Center at the Atlantic Council. During the 2011 Arab Spring, she was a senior
1:07.6	advisory and coordinator for Egypt policy at the U.S. State Department.
1:13.0	Amy has written numerous articles on the Middle East for magazines like Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy.
1:19.4	Stephen is the E&I Enrico Matai Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies here at the Council.
1:25.7	He has written four books on the Middle East with the most recent
1:28.4	being, The End of Ambition, America's Past, Present and Future in the Middle East, which was released
1:35.2	this summer. Stephen is also a columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine. Amy and Stephen, thank you for
1:41.1	joining me on the president's inbox. Thanks for having me, Jim. Thank you. Now, first question, are either of you advising the Harris campaign of the Trump campaign?
1:50.2	No. I'm not advising anybody. Okay. With that out of the way, let's dive into the topic of the Middle East.
1:57.2	We are talking just days before the one-year anniversary of Hamas' attack on Israel.
2:02.6	I think we can safely say that the situation in the Middle East right now, especially in the Levant, is fluid.
2:08.6	It's dynamic.
2:10.6	So things may change before this episode goes live.
2:13.6	Fighting continues in Gaza.
2:16.6	Israel has killed the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah,
2:20.8	and launched an invasion of still unknown dimensions into southern Lebanon. Iran has fired some
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