Description
The US-led order in West Asia is being destabilized as never before as long-standing US allies such as Saudi Arabia are striking out in new directions and stepping up their cooperation with China, in particular. What does this mean for US strategy? How are individual countries affected and responding? What does this mean for key countries, including Israel and Iran? We bring together a panel of experts on the region and on particular countries do discuss these questions.
S?peakers
Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. He is a co-founder of the online publication The Electronic Intifada and a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka.
Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip-hop artist, academic, political campaigner, and a MintPress video and podcast host. As a musician, he has collaborated with the Arctic Monkeys, Wretch 32, Immortal Technique, and Akala. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network, and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn.
Y?ao Jinxiang is currently an assistant research fellow at China Institute of International Studies (CIIS). He received two Ph. D degrees in 2019 on International Politics: one in School of International Studies, Peking University (China), and the other in Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (Japan, Double-Degree Program). And he received his MA in International Politics from School of International Studies, Peking University in 2014 and his BA in Diplomacy from the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China.
Moderator - Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies. She is the Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the convenor of the International Manifesto Group. Her books include Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy (2023), Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats’ and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month.