President Trump’s State of the Union address revealed no clear foreign policy vision or coherent Middle East strategy.
Gregory Aftandilian
Gregory Aftandilian is a lecturer in the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and is a former US State Department Middle East analyst.
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