Middle East

The Eurasia Center's Middle East Program

Mission of The Middle East Program

The prime mission of the Eurasia Center’s new Middle East Program is to develop new and facilitate existing positive relations between the United States and Arab countries in Southwest Eurasia, The Gulf States. The Eurasia Center is constantly building an association of Middle East scholars who share in this vision. Our Middle East program focuses on a group of scholars who analyze the new trends being built between America and the Middle East and also the new dramatic relations developing with the Middle East and Eurasia.

There has been a surge in negative scholarly, journalistic and political commentary on the Arab world. The Eurasia Center seeks to identify specific areas in which the United States and the Arab world can achieve the most productive interactions, all the while maintaining mutual respect of each other’s cultures to build new bridges for many years to come.

Founded as the first organization in America to use the term Eurasia, it has been the America-Eurasia Center’s vision that the relationship between America and the nations of Eurasia (Europe and Asia), with a newer focus on the Middle East, work together to build lasting positive relations so that in times of crisis such bonds will not break. Such relationships can only be built from the ground up and that is why the membership and readership of The America-Eurasia Center has grown dramatically.

Those who are interested in building peaceful positive relations among nations are becoming increasingly alarmed at the current course of relations between America and nations in Eurasia.

New initiatives, solutions, and opportunities must be made. That is why The America-Eurasia Center and its America-Eurasian Business Coalition continue to promote our mission through Programs, Conferences, Publications, and the media which reach billions of people around the world. We are seeking partnerships with all peoples and nations who seek peace and prosperity through understanding...not supporting centuries-old divisions that lead to endless wars and disasters.

The America-Eurasia Center promotes positive US relations with the Middle East through its efforts that highlight the important role of the Gulf Cooperation Council’s efforts which bring stability and energy security to the world. Our efforts by scholars and staff to work on initiatives, publications, lecture series, and conferences will further this important mission.

The Center works with Middle Eastern governments and Embassy staff to promote important conferences in Congress, at think tanks, and at Universities across the U.S. Articles that the America-Eurasia Center's Middle East Program publishes reach key decision makers directly, and those who work in the field of international affairs. The Center alone has the U.S. government, Fortune 500 companies, and international organizations’ staff on its distribution lists. Given the latest developments in the Middle East, it becomes more important to build even further on the great strides that Arab governments are making in terms of building greater security, economic progress, and cultural relations throughout the world. Reforms and milestones are being made as in some areas the Arab image needs to be improved both here in America and abroad.

THE MIDDLE EAST CONTINUES TO BE A VITAL AREA OF RESEARCH

The America-Eurasia Center continues to expand its research and reporting on the Middle East. The Center is committed to pushing the forefront of Middle East-focused research through fact-finding group visits sponsored by corporations, businesses, and individuals. Through these visits, the America-Eurasia Center will be better able to understand the unique economic, political, and social climate of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and assess how the region’s socio-political boundaries will continue to change in the years ahead.

The benefits of conducting this on-the-ground research will not be limited to just the America-Eurasia Center— multinational corporations, non-government organizations, the wider academic community, and the region itself can all gain insight from our important activities, research, prognoses, and prescriptions.

Through grants and private donations, the America-Eurasia Center can propel itself to the forefront of Middle East-focused research, putting the Center’s resources and dedicated personnel into action on one of the most enduringly important areas for America’s foreign policy.

CULTURAL EVENTS

CONNECTING AMERICA AND MENA

The America-Eurasia Center is intimately involved in a number of wide-ranging cultural activities. The Center has hosted, and continues to plan and host, students and professionals from MENA and the West. This enables the Center to foster mutually beneficial cultural exchanges and personal connections that transcend political, social, and cultural boundaries.

Many of these students and professionals are actively engaged in conducting research for the Center, adding their unique perspectives and experiences to discussions surrounding the region and the United States. The goal of the America-Eurasia Center’s efforts in the cultural arena is to help establish stronger ties between the people of the Middle East, North Africa, and the United States, which will lead to economic growth, clear international dialogue, and wide-ranging cultural exchanges.

Trade and Business

The America-Eurasia Business Coalition

The America-Eurasia Center plans to engage international Middle Eastern and American-based multinational companies in the banking, energy, automotive, and all major sectors of commerce. Through its America-Business Coalition, many major corporations work collaborate with partners and governments in the Middle East to help many nations and individuals prosper and succeed. The Center is reaching out to important wealthy individuals who believe in our mission and can offer to support our Middle East Program. The Program’s research builds upon important educational, business, and cultural bridges between the US and Arab nations. This Program fosters a mutually-positive relations between American organizations and the Middle East as such opportunities allow the countries to cooperate and learn more closely with each other, which Americans can then use to better assess and understand the Middle East and to engineer a more effective strategy that builds positive relations with Middle East countries for the brighter future. Employment and entrepreneurship are key areas of development, as well as new areas of high-tech growth. The Eurasia Center has a rich history of educating Americans about the need to develop more positive relations with other regions of Europe and Asia (Eurasia).