Russia and China are increasingly vying for influence in the Middle East with the United States. The Institute’s Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great Power Competition and the Middle East was created in February 2022 to meet this challenge to U.S. foreign policy.

In this video, Senior Fellow Anna Borshchevskaya, Goldberger Fellow Grant Rumley, and Lane-Swig Senior Fellow Michael Singh, the interim director of the Glazer program, discuss Russian and Chinese inroads in Middle East affairs and how the Institute is providing research and policy recommendations to assist U.S. government officials in addressing this problem.

Singh, who also serves as the Institute's managing director, is a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council. Rumley served in both the Trump and Biden administrations as an advisor for Middle East Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Before joining the Institute, Russia expert Anna Borshchevskaya, author of Putin’s War in Syria: Russian Foreign Policy and the Price of America’s Absence (IB Tauris, 2021), served as an analyst for a U.S. military contractor in Afghanistan, among other positions.

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