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Atlantic Council Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative
Also known as: Atlantic Council Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative
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Experts react: How the US war with Iran is playing out around the ... atlanticcouncil.org Mar 1, 2026 7 facts
accountShalom Lipner is a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs, and previously worked in foreign policy and public diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem under seven consecutive Israeli premiers.
claimEric Alter is a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and the dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.
claimEric Alter is a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and the dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.
accountShalom Lipner is a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs, and previously worked in foreign policy and public diplomacy in the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem under seven consecutive Israeli premiers.
accountGina Abercrombie-Winstanley is a distinguished fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, a former US ambassador to Malta, and a former special assistant for the Middle East and Africa to the secretary of state.
claimEric Alter is a nonresident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and the dean of the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi.
accountShalom Lipner is a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs, and previously served in the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem under seven consecutive Israeli premiers.
Twenty questions (and expert answers) about the Iran war atlanticcouncil.org Mar 11, 2026 4 facts
claimJonathan Panikoff is the director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and a former deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East at the US National Intelligence Council.
perspectiveIngrid Small, deputy director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council, assesses that Iran's proxy network remains operational but is increasingly constrained.
claimDaniel B. Shapiro, a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, asserts that if a gap opens between Israeli and United States goals regarding the war with Iran, Donald Trump will likely determine when the war ends and impose that endpoint on Israel, even if it falls short of regime change.
accountNate Swanson is a resident senior fellow and director of the Iran Strategy Project at the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, and served as a senior advisor on Iran policy to successive administrations starting in 2015, including as director for Iran at the National Security Council.