Susan L. Shirk
Susan L. Shirk, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, is Director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Susan L. Shirk, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, is Director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.
Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?