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April 19, 2016, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

The Iran Deal: What’s Next for America? Signature Luncheon

WOSU @ COSI

333 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43215

Speaker: Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Richard Nephew, Richard Herrmann

On July 14, 2015 the U.S., and five other nations (the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, and Germany) along with Iran, reached the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 159 page historic agreement designed under American leadership to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Will this deal achieve the U.S. objective and will it serve America’s broader interests in the turbulent Middle East? What are the strengths and what are the concerns the U.S. has with this intensely negotiated agreement? In return for accepting severe restrictions that hobble Iran’s nuclear program and open Iran’s nuclear facilities to unprecedented access of international professional inspectors, the U.S., the European Union, and the United Nations have agreed to lift economic sanctions that had been crippling Iran’s economy over the past six years. The implementation of that agreement is now underway.

Join us as we discuss these important questions with three experts in the field, Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Richard Nephew and Dr. Richard Herrmann.

This event is supported by:
World Affairs Councils of America; Rockefeller Brothers Fund & The Iran Project

Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Distinguished Fellow

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Dr. Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

Dr. Mathews has published widely in newspapers and in scientific and foreign policy journals, and she has co-authored and co-edited three books. She holds a PhD in molecular biology from the California Institute of Technology and graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College.

Richard Nephew

Program Director & Nonresident Senior Fellow

Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Brookings Institution

Richard Nephew is a research scholar and program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. He is also a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Program and affiliated with the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative housed within the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence. During his career, Nephew served as the principal deputy coordinator for sanctions policy at the U.S. State Department and director for Iran at the National Security Council. Nephew also served as the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran.

Nephew received his master’s degree in security policy studies from George Washington University in 2004. He received his bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from George Washington University in 2002.

Richard Herrmann

Professor & Department Chair, Interim Director

Department of Political Science, Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University

Richard K. Herrmann, PhD, Professor & Department Chair a the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University, concentrates on international relations, international security, and political psychology. He was the Director of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and has served as a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning staff in Washington D.C.

He is the author of Perceptions and Behavior in Soviet Foreign Policy and has published numerous articles in journals including American Political Science Review, World Politics, International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Political Psychology.