Scott Carpenter from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Daniel Brumberg from Georgetown University and the United States Institute of Peace led a discussion on the future of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, addressing the following:
The Bush Administration emphasized democracy promotion in the Middle East more than any of its predecessors ever have, and launched the Middle East Partnership in 2002 to help advance it. More than five years and hundreds of millions of dollars later, what has MEPI achieved? Looking past the next administration and into the longer term, what parts of the MEPI agenda should be a permanent fixture of U.S. foreign policy, and what structure should administer it? What should the focus of democratization efforts be, and how much money should be directed to those efforts? How should democratization efforts be coordinated within in the U.S. government? What landmarks should we use to judge success of long-term efforts?
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