Risks & Consequences: A Discussion on Foreign Intervention

forms? What lessons should Russia’s involvement in Syria teach US policymakers about the risks of non-intervention? Is open-ended engagement in Afghanistan’s endless-seeming conflict senseless? We’ll discuss those and other questions at a time of mounting global instability and shifting geopolitical tectonics. 

Speakers Bio
Andrew J. Tabler is the Martin J. Gross Fellow in the Program on Arab Politics at The Washington Institute, where he focuses on Syria and U.S. policy in the Levant. Tabler served as co-founder and editor-in-chief of Syria Today, Syria's first private-sector English-language magazine; as a consultant on U.S.-Syria relations for the International Crisis Group (2008); and as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs (2005-2007), writing on Syrian, Lebanese, and Middle Eastern affairs.
 
Gregory Feifer is a journalist who has reported from Russia for National Public Radio and other outlets. He currently serves as ICWA’s interim Executive Director. An ICWA fellow in Russia in 2000-2002, Feifer is the author of several books, most recently Russians: The People Behind the Power. He has written for numerous publications, including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Hashim Wahdatyar is a political analyst based in Washington D.C. He is a former spokesperson and Programme Officer for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan. He is a former Asia 21 Fellow. He has been quoted in The Washington Post, Al Jazeera and Voice of America.