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URL:https://quincyinst.org/events/steven-simon-book-talk-grand-delusion-th
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SUMMARY:Steven Simon Book Talk — Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of Ame
 rican Ambition in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:\nGrand Delusion reveals that this story\, while episodically 
 impressive\, was too often tragic and at times dishonorable. As we enter a
  new era in foreign policy\, this is an essential book\, a cautionary hist
 ory that illuminates American's propensity for self-deception and misadven
 ture at a moment when the nation is redefining its engagement with a world
  in crisis. Steven Simon served on the National Security Council staff as
  senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs 2011-2012. 
 He also worked on the NSC staff 1994-1999 on counterterrorism and Middle E
 ast security policy. These assignments followed a fifteen-year career at t
 he U.S. Department of State. Between government assignments\, he was Hasi
 b Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Forei
 gn Relations\, analyst at the RAND Corporation\, and deputy director of th
 e International Institute for Strategic Studies\; he is currently a profes
 sor at Colby College. He is the co-author\, among other books\, of The 
 Age of Sacred Terror\, winner of the Arthur C. Ross Award for best book in
  international relations. Simon will be joined in conversation with Aaron
  David Miller\, vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished fel
 low at the Woodrow Wilson Center\, served for two decades as a State Depar
 tment analyst\, negotiator and adviser on Middle East issues.\n\n\n\nThis 
 is an in-person only event at Politics and Prose Connecticut Ave NW locati
 on. \n\n\n\n\nEvent Information\n\n\n\nMask Requirements\n\n\n\n\nThis eve
 nt is free with first come\, first served seating.\n
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CATEGORIES:Book Talk
LOCATION:Politics and Prose\, 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW\, Washington\, D.C
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