Trump and Tillerson face the Middle East
- Written by David Mednicoff, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Director, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Can President-elect Donald Trump adopt policies that respond to the realities of today’s Middle East, despite his lack of regional knowledge, absence of deep engagement in global issues and use of inflammatory language toward Muslims?
It’s still too early to answer this question definitively, but Trump’s pick of oil executive Rex...