Lessons From a Long War: The U.S. in the Middle East
Join us for a WACC Ambassadors Circle Series with Ryan Crocker, U.S. Career Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon (1993-2012) on Tuesday, May 26. Ambassador Crocker will provide us with an overview of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East while addressing America’s role in the region from a national security, foreign policy, and humanitarian aid perspective.
WACC Speaker Series (virtual)
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m..
Register online (Free to WACC members and non-members)
Biography
Ryan Crocker is a Diplomat in Residence at Princeton University. He was a career Foreign Service Officer who served six times as an American Ambassador: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon. Three of these appointments were under Republican Administrations and three under Democratic Administrations. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award, in 2009. Other recent awards include the inaugural Bancroft Award, presented by the Naval Academy in 2016. Also in 2016, he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Literary and Historical Society at University College, Dublin where he was presented the annual James Joyce Award. He has been named as the 2020 recipient of West Point’s Thayer Award. He is an Honorary Marine.