Book Talk & Discussion: America’s Middle East by Marc Lynch

Name: Book Talk & Discussion: America’s Middle East by Marc Lynch
Start: 2025-12-15T12:00:00+01:00
Location: Karen Blixens Vej 8, 2300 Kbh S

Schedule

Mon, 15 Dec, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Karen Blixens Vej 8, 2300 Kbh S | Copenhagen , SK

(Danish below)
🗓 Monday, 15 December
🕛 12:00–14:00
📍 University of Copenhagen, Søndre Campus (exact room TBA)
Join us for a discussion of Marc Lynch’s new and much-anticipated book, America’s Middle East — The Ruination of a Region. A critique of how Washington has repeatedly ensnared itself in destructive policies across the region, from the Gulf War to Gaza.
In conversation with Professor Marc Lynch (George Washington University), Fanar Haddad (University of Copenhagen), and Lars Erslev Andersen (Danish Institute for International Studies), we will explore how U.S. ambitions for leadership and stability have instead produced cycles of war, instability, and humanitarian catastrophe — and what Gaza’s devastation reveals about America’s role in the region today.
Lynch traces 35 years of U.S. policy failures —from Iraq and Lebanon to Syria, Iran, Yemen, and Libya —showing how illusions of control and moral superiority have trapped the United States in a self-defeating pattern that reproduces the region’s disasters in new forms.
☕ Coffee and snacks will be served.
📖 The event is held in English
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🗓 Mandag den 15. december
🕛 12:00–14:00
📍 Københavns Universitet, Søndre Campus (lokale annonceres snart)
Kom til en spændende samtale om Marc Lynchs nye og meget omtalte bog; America's Middle East — The Ruination of a Region. En skarp kritik af, hvordan USA gentagne gange har viklet sig ind i destruktive politikker i Mellemøsten, fra Golfkrigen til Gaza.
I samtale med Professor Marc Lynch (George Washington University), Fanar Haddad (Københavns Universitet) og Lars Erslev Andersen (DIIS), diskuterer vi, hvordan amerikanske ambitioner om lederskab og stabilitet i regionen har ført til krige, ustabilitet og humanitære katastrofer – og hvad ødelæggelsen af Gaza afslører om USA’s rolle i verden i dag.
Lynch kortlægger 35 års fejlslagen amerikansk Mellemøstpolitik – fra Irak og Libanon til Syrien, Iran, Yemen og Libyen – og viser, hvordan illusioner om kontrol og moralsk overlegenhed har fastholdt USA i et destruktivt mønster, der gentager regionens katastrofer i nye former.
☕ Der vil blive serveret kaffe og forfriskninger.
📚 Arrangementet bliver afholdt på engelsk