Sean Kane Author & Editor

Kenneth M. Pollack is director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., USA. He is the author of A Path out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East (Random House). Raad Alkadiri is partner and head of Global Risk at PFC Energy, a Washington, D.C., USA -based strategic advisory firm. J. Scott Carpenter is the Keston Family Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and director of its Project Fikra. Frederick W. Kagan is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., USA, and author of Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy (Encounter). Sean Kane is the senior program officer for Iraq at the United States Institute of Peace and previously served with the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq.