World Review: Shifting Geopolitics in the Middle East
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About This Episode
Bloomberg Opinion's Bobby Ghosh, the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, the New Yorker's Susan Glasser, and Council President Ivo Daalder take a closer look at the Middle East: Tunisia's democratic crisis and the end of the Arab Spring, Iraq and whether the war is really over, and how the US exit from Afghanistan could leave an opening for China.
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