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Guests: Ambassador Frank Wisner, Gary Sick, and Professor Joshua Stacher
As the U.S. prepares to elect a new president, our panel explored the status of the highly controversial Iran Deal and what its future holds with a new administration coming into the White House. What are the common misconceptions of the Iran Deal and how has the deal impacted U.S. foreign policy strategy in the broader Middle East?
Panel members included Ambassador Frank Wisner, former U.S. Ambassador to India, Zambia, & Egypt, Gary Sick, former National Security Council Member for the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations and senior research scholar and Professor at Columbia University, and Professor Joshua Stacher, Associate Professor at Kent State University. Join us for a lively discussion, moderated by Ambassador Heather Hodges, President and Ambassador-in-Residence of CCWA.
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