EIPA Press Briefing, 29 October 2020
‘Reset or Reboot? The Middle East after the US elections’
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Dr. ODED ERAN has been one of Israel’s leading foreign-relations policy advisors. He is senior research fellow at Israel’s prestigious Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).
Prior to having joined the INSS, Dr Eran headed Israel’s peace negotiating team with the Palestinians. He also served as the ambassador to the EU, NATO and Jordan. He held the position of deputy director general of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as deputy ambassador to the United States. Dr Eran holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
CHARLES THÈPAUT is a fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy & a career French diplomat, who worked in Algeria, Syria, Iraq, Belgium & Germany.
Thépaut’s book, Le monde arabe en morceaux: des printemps arabes au recul américain [The Arab World in Pieces: From the Arab Spring to the American Pullback], was published in March 2020. Fluent in French, English, Arabic, and German, Thépaut holds advanced degrees from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lille–Sciences Po Lille. https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/a-new-west-in-the-middle-east-toward-a-humbler-more-effective-model-of-tran