What shapes US foreign policy in the Middle East?
Qatar hosts a two-day conference on US policy and the Gulf crisis.
From the crisis in the Gulf to the war in Syria, the decisions made in Washington have long-lasting consequences.
US President Donald Trump has taken a “hands-off” approach to foreign policy while pushing his “America First” strategy.
He’s long promised to find a solution to the conflict in Palestine with what he calls the “deal of the century”.
But there hasn’t been much detail on what that deal contains.
Now, with an election year coming up in the United States, and an ever-changing political dynamic in the Middle East, what will US policy in the region be?
And, are we heading towards more uncertainty?
Presenter: Peter Dobbie
Guests:
Mahmoud Jabara – visiting lecturer, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Seyed Mohammad Marandi – dean at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran
Omar Ayasra – researcher in religious sociology and political transformation
Mohammed Cherkaoui – senior fellow, Al Jazeera Center For Studies