Event: Order out of chaos? How to treat the Middle East's multiple conflicts - Ambassador Martin S. Indyk

The Middle East is going through an unprecedented period of instability. The region is afflicted with multiple crises with few evident solutions. Please join us for an address on the current turmoil in the Middle East by one of America’s foremost experts on the region, and a Director of the Lowy Institute’s Board, Ambassador Martin Indyk.

Ambassador Indyk is Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. He returned to Brookings on 1 July after serving as the US Special Envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. During the Clinton administration Indyk served as US Ambassador to Israel, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East affairs, and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and South Asia on the US National Security Council. Indyk is the author of Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peacemaking Diplomacy in the Middle East, and most recently, Bending History: Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy (with Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Lieberthal).