Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Starr Forum: Single Roll of the Dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran
Book talk with Trita Parsi, author of Single Roll of the Dice. He is the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, the founder and president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US-Iranian relations, Iranian foreign policy, and the geopolitics of the Middle East.
Discussant: Abbas Maleki, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1997) ,associate professor of political science at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, director of the International Institute for Caspian Studies, and a senior associate of the Belfer Center's International Security Program at Harvard University. Maleki is in residence at CIS as Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow.
Moderator: Stephen Kinzer, is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling." Kinzer's most recent book is Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future.
