Brooks Sunday Global Review: Interview With Sam Quinones on Mexico’s Growing Instability, Drug Cartels and President Obama’s Response

Sam Quinones

Sam Quinones – Reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Sunday Global Review host Webster Brooks discuss U.S. – Mexico relations, immigration and the growing danger of Mexico’s subversion by the drug cartels.

To read “The State of War” article by Sam Quinones in Foreign Policy Magazine click on the link below:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4684

Sam Quinones is the author of TRUE TALES FROM ANOTHER MEXICO: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino and the Bronx

ANTONIO’S GUN AND DELFINO’S DREAM: True Tales of Mexican Migration
Website: www.samquinones.com

Brooks Sunday Global Review Interview With Sabina Dewan: President Obama and the G-20 Summit

Sabina Dewan

BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW: THE G-20 SUMMIT – April 5, 2009

On Sunday, April 5 Ms. Sabina Dewan, Associate Director of International Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress discussed the critical outcomes of the London G-20 Summit and President Obama’s role in the proceedings. Ms. Dewan is a co-author of the Center for American Progress’s recently releasedbriefing paper “The Case for Leadership: Strengthening the Group of 20 to Tackle Key Global Crises.”

Ms. Dewan works on economic issues ranging from the role of globalization to international trade and technology; the nexus between innovation, productivity and growth, to the role that development assistance, monetary policy and international financial institutions play in raising living standards around the globe. Prior to joining American Progress, Sabina was a research analyst at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland where she worked on various projects promoting the ILO’s decent work agenda within the context of globalization and international development. She then worked as an independent consultant based in Brussels, Belgium undertaking a variety of projects for institutions including the ILO Regional Office in Thailand and the Directorate-general on Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities of the European Commission.

Brooks Sunday Global Review – Rajan Menon Interview: Obama’s NATO Challenge and the Afghanistan War

Rajan Menon

BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW – TALK
Rajan Menon, Bernard Schwartz Fellow -The New America Foundation
Discusses: Obama’s First EU/NATO Visit, the War in Afghanistan and his book
“The End of Alliances” with Webster Brooks.

Brooks Sunday Global Review – Shujah Nawaz Interview: Toward an Obama Reponse to Pakistan’s Long March

Shuja Nawaz

BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW – TALK
Shuja Nawaz, Director of The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center
Discusses: “A Comprehensive U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan” Report
and the Kerry-Lugar Senate Bill on Pakistan with Webster Brooks.

Lebanon’s 2009 Elections, the Cedar Revolution and Obama’s Syria Card

David Schenker

BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW WITH DAVID SCHENKER
Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Director, Program on Arab Politics

On Sunday March 15, David Schenker talked with Sunday Global Review host Webster Brooks about the upcoming June 2009 parliamentary elections in Lebanon. With the Hizbollah/AMAL list challenging the March 14th Cedar Revolution Movement’s parliamentary majority, a great deal is at stake in the elections. During her recent visit to the Middle East by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dispatched two U.S. diplomats to Syria. The Obama administration’s overtures to Syrian President Bashar al Assad has fueled speculation that the U.S. seeks to end Syria’s diplomatic isolation and probe for an opening to wedge the Syrian-Iranian axis. David Schenker just returned from the Levant and shares his views on the 2009 Lebanese elections, Hizbollah and Syria’s role in Lebanon and the Obama administration’s entreaty to Damascus.

Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi: American-Iranian Council President on Brooks Sunday Global Review 3-8-2009

Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi

DR. AMIRAHMADI TO DISCUSS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND THE FUTURE OF U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS

Hartford, Connecticut – On Sunday March 8, Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi, President of the American-Iranian Council (AIC) and America’s foremost expert on Iran will conduct an in-depth interview on the Obama administration and the future of U.S.-Iran relations on the Brooks Sunday Global Review. Under Amirahmadi’s leadership the AIC gained a rare approval from the U.S. government to establish an NGO lobbying group in Tehran, Iran. The AIC has been a leading non-profit/non-partisan organization promoting the renewal of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Iran. Dr. Amirahmadi is also a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University.

Among the topics Dr. Amirahmadi will discuss with host Webster Brooks are Iran’s nuclear program, the June 2009 presidential elections, Iran’s regional involvement in the Middle East and the prospects of improved relations between the U.S. and Iran under President Obama’s administration. The interview can be heard on the Brooks Foreign Policy Review website at www.brooksreview.wordpress.com on Sunday March 8,2009 at 8:00 p.m. ******

Brooks Sunday Global Review: Inside Putin’s Russia House With Dr. Nicolai Petro

Dr. Nicholai Petro

PRESS RELEASE
BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW
FEBRUARY 26, 2009

INSIDE PUTIN’S RUSSIA HOUSE — INTERVIEW WITH DR. NICOLAI PETRO ON US-RUSSIA RELATIONS

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – On Sunday, February 22, 2009, former U.S. Attache to Russia, Dr. Nicolai Petro joined Sunday Global Review host Webster Brooks for an hour-long discussion on U.S-Russia strategic relations with the new Obama administration. The in-depth discussion covered areas of nuclear weapons, global energy policy, Afghanistan and the Central Asian region. In addition Dr. Petro discussed the political turmoil in Ukraine, its relations with Russia and upcoming national elections in 2010.

BROOKS SUNDAY GLOBAL REVIEW, 2.15.09

Dr. Ariel Cohen

Brooks Sunday Global Review, 2.15.09 – Dr. Ariel Cohen, a Russia and Central Asian expert with the Heritage Foundation, discusses President Obama’s foreign policy options for a resurgent Russia.