BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:253@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20180209T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20180209T130000 DTSTAMP:20231222T091729Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/trita-parsi-2018/ SUMMARY:Iran: Trump's Gift to the Hard-liners || Trita Parsi DESCRIPTION:\n\nReturning speaker\, Trita Parsi will be addressing Alaskans on the topic of "Iran: Trump's Gift to the Hard-liners" answering the que stion of "Will killing the Nuclear Deal bring the US and Iran towards war ?" -- You will not want to miss this dynamic speaker and program!\nTrita P arsi\n\n\nTrita Parsi is an award winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is the founder a nd president of the National Iranian American Council and an expert on US- Iranian relations\, Iranian foreign politics\, and the geopolitics of the Middle East. He is the author of Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Iran\, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press 2007)\, for which he conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli\, Iranian and American decision-makers. Treacherous Alliance is the silver medal wi nner of the 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relati ons.\n\nParsi's second book A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran (Yale University Press) was released early 2012 and was selected by Foreign Affairs journal as the Best Book of 2012 on the Middle East.\n \nHis latest book - Losing an Enemy: Obama\, Iran and the Triumph of Diplo macy (Yale University Press\, 2017) - reveals the behind the scenes story to the historic nuclear deal with Iran.\n\n​Parsi was born in Iran but m oved with his family at the age of four to Sweden in order to escape polit ical repression in Iran. His father was an outspoken academic who was jail ed by the Shah and then by the Ayatollah. He moved to the United States as an adult and studied foreign policy at Johns Hopkins’ School for Advanc ed International Studies where he received his Ph.D.\n\n​He founded NIAC to provide a non-partisan\, non-profit organization through which Iranian -Americans could participate in American civic life. NIAC is a vocal propo nent of dialogue and engagement between the US and Iran\, which Parsi cons istently has argued would enhance our national security by helping to stab ilize the Middle East and bolster the moderates in Iran.\n\nParsi has foll owed Middle East politics through work in the field and extensive experien ce on Capitol Hill and at the United Nations. He is frequently consulted b y Western and Asian governments on foreign policy matters. Parsi has worke d for the Swedish Permanent Mission to the UN\, where he served in the Sec urity Council\, handling the affairs of Afghanistan\, Iraq\, Tajikistan an d Western Sahara\, and in the General Assembly's Third Committee\, address ing human rights in Iran\, Afghanistan\, Myanmar and Iraq.\n\nParsi studie d for his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Fra ncis Fukuyama at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. In addition to his PhD\, he holds a Master's Degree in Internati onal Relations from Uppsala University and a Master's Degree in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has served as an adjunct profes sor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University SAIS\, George W ashington University and Georgetown University\, as well as an adjunct sch olar at the Middle East Institute and as a Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wi lson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC.\n\nHe is fluent i n Persian/Farsi\, English\, and Swedish. Parsi's articles on Middle East a ffairs have been published in the Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Financial Times\, Jane's Intelligence Review\, the Nation\, The American Conservative\, the Jerusalem Post\, Th e Forward\, and others. He is a frequent guest on CNN\, PBS’s Newshour w ith Jim Lehrer\, NPR\, the BBC\, and Al Jazeera.\n\n\n\nLosing an Enemy: O bama\, Iran\, and the Triumph of Diplomacy\nThis timely book focuses on Pr esident Obama’s deeply considered strategy toward Iran’s nuclear progr am and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent sta lemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts.\n\nThe deal accom plished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war with I ran and prevented the possibility of an Iranian nuclear bomb. Trita Parsi\ , a Middle East foreign policy expert who advised the Obama White House th roughout the talks and had access to decision-makers and diplomats on the U.S. and Iranian sides alike\, examines every facet of a triumph that coul d become as important and consequential as Nixon’s rapprochement with Ch ina. Drawing from more than seventy-five in-depth interviews with key deci sion-makers\, including Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and U.S. Secre tary of State John Kerry\, this is the first authoritative account of Pres ident Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement.\n\n\n\nPOST-EVENT PO DCAST\nIf you missed this engaging presentation you can now listen to the podcast of the event\, courtesy of Alaska Public Media. Happy listening!\n \nhttps://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/02/23/iran-trumps-gift-to-the-hardline rs/\n\n\n\nThank you\nThis program is made possible thanks to the support of Dick Block and Mellen Investment Co. and Flip Todd of Todd Communicatio ns. 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