Middle East & South Asia
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"American Interests, Policies, and Results in the Middle East: Energy, Israel, Access, and and the Containment of Muslim Rage" -- Remarks to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 11 February 2008
"Saudi Arabia's Foreign and Domestic Dilemmas since 9/11" -- Remarks to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England, 15 September 2002
"Reflections on a War in Iraq" -- Remarks to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations Conference on “Revisiting Arab-U.S. Relations: September 11 - One Year Later and the Way Forward", Washington, DC, 9 September 2002
"The Way Forward: A Diplomatist's Perspective" -- Remarks to the 13th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference, Washington, DC, 13 September 2004
"Where Are We Headed in the Middle East?" -- Remarks to the National Council for U.S. Arab Relations, Washington, DC, 12 September 2005
"The GCC and the Management of Policy Consequences" -- Remarks to the 15th Annual US-Arab Policymakers Conference, Washington, DC, 31 October 2006
"West Asia and the Next President: More of the Same Won't Do" -- Remarks to the National Council for U.S. Arab Relations, Washington, DC, 31 October 2008
"The Arabs Take a Chinese Wife" -- Remarks to the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Asilomar, California, 7 May 2006
"Recent Developments in the Middle East" -- Remarks to the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations, Washington, DC, 8 September 2003
Intelligence
"Foregone Conclusions: Vested Interests and Intelligence Analysis"
"U.S. Policy and the Search for Peace in the Middle East -- Remarks to the Institute of Foreign Affais and National Security Studies & the Korean Association for Middle East Studies, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 9 October 2009
"U.S. Arab Relations: Forks in the Way Forward" -- Remarks to the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations, Washington, DC, 16 October 2009
"China and the Muslim Peoples of the Middle East" -- Remarks to the Rumi Forum, Washington, DC, 15 December 2009
"Saudi Arabia: The End of Progress without Change" -- Remarks to the Sarasota Institute for Lifetime Learning, [not delivered] 11 February 2010
"Is Israel a Strategic Asset or Liability for the United States?" -- Remarks at the Nixon Center, Washington, DC, 20 July 2010
"America's Faltering Search for Peace in the Middle East: Openings for Others?" -- Remarks in Oslo, Norway, 1 Septemer 2010