Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Lecture Series December 15, 2015 States collapsing, militant extremism on the rise, nuclear proliferation in the offing, an increasingly predominant Iran, emerging alliances of strange bedfellows – this is not your father’s Middle East. What to make of it, and how to think about what role America can or should play? To answer these questions and more, FPRI experts Samuel Helfont, Tally Helfont, and Andrew Spath joined us for a wide-ranging discussion.