WASHINGTON(January 30, 2024) – NPR’s “Up First” Newsletter featured a top story, Qatar's prime minister is in Washington, D.C. for talks with U.S. officials aimed at finalizing a framework for a deal to stop fighting in Gaza and free Israeli hostages. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani is also warning that tensions in the region are "boiling up" following the attack on U.S. troops in Jordan, for which the U.S. blames an Iran-backed militia group and has promised to respond. This visit continues the conversation around U.S’s support of Israel and tensions regarding a wider spread war.
If you’re looking for insights on geopolitical or political risk issues more broadly, please consider Scott Siler, a Lecturer of International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Siler is a political risk expert, and owner of Exergy International LLC, a boutique research and analysis firm focused on data and analytic strategies to address political risk issues. Siler joined the faculty of GW as an adjunct in 2020 and teaches a graduate level course on Political Risk Analysis. He is a seasoned advisor, strategist, and analyst with over a decade of experience helping senior executives better fulfill business and mission goals by developing strategic and tactical objectives in response to emerging political, economic, and technological trends. He is also an award-winning researcher whose work ranges from writing and presenting technical papers with NASA staff, to publishing articles in leading Harvard policy journals, to helping Meghan O’Sullivan, former deputy national security director for Iraq and Afghanistan, write a book on U.S. energy and foreign policy.
Siler is quoted saying, "On one hand, the U.S. supports Israel’s right to defend itself, in particular after an attack on its homeland, which in American minds may echo September 11. On the other, the U.S. will need to understand the tradeoffs of supporting an ally which continues to draw intense scrutiny from the international community on how it is conducting its attacks. This then becomes a broader issue than simply foreign policy and more a moral and an ethical dilemma for the U.S. national security establishment and even the nation as a whole.”
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gwu [dot] edu (shannon[dot]mitchell[at]gwu[dot]edu).
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