Dr. Barham Salih, founder of AUIS, and former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, participated in the first plenary session on the geopolitical transformation of the Middle East at the Global Strategic Review conference in Oslo.
Dr. Barham Salih, founder of AUIS, and former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, participated in the first plenary session on the geopolitical transformation of the Middle East at the Global Strategic Review conference in Oslo. The conference was convened by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) to discuss a host of geopolitical issues with experts from around the world.
The session was chaired by Dr. Nicholas Redman, senior fellow for geopolitical risk and economic security with IISS. Other panelists included IISS Iraq expert Toby Dodge and Roula Khalaf Razzouk, foreign editor of the Financial Times. The speakers discussed the transformation in the political and economic order of the Middle East in light of the ongoing military conflicts in Syria and Iraq and the rise of the Islamic State. The discussion focused on the policies by both regional and extra-regional powers and the effectiveness of the multilateral coalition against the rise of terrorism and regional political conflict in the Middle East.