The fallacy of great-power rivalry in the Middle East
The US can avoid its past mistakes by focusing on human rights, rather than countering Russia or China.
Mandy Terc is the Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). Previously, she served as founding director of the Sheikh Faisal Center for Entrepreneurship in the Middle East at DePaul University where she developed joint programs and conferences between Chicago and Doha. Dr. Terc has studied the region’s new generation of entrepreneurs, from examining how entrepreneurship organizations impacted socio-economic stratification in Syria to looking at the role of young entrepreneurs in economic diversification in Qatar. She conducted 18 months of field research on language and entrepreneurship in Syria. She holds a PhD in linguistic anthropology from the University of Michigan.
The US can avoid its past mistakes by focusing on human rights, rather than countering Russia or China.
Decades of war, U.S. sanctions, and a hypocritical approach to human rights has left the region seething. Is Biden listening?