The Center for Rule-making Strategies (CRS) is delighted to host Sayed Ghoneim, Chairman of the Institute for Global Security & Defense Affairs (IGSDA), a thinktank based in UAE.

Major General Ghoneim will talk about the following three points.

(1) Relationships between the Middle East and countries in the Indo-Pacific region.

(2) What role Middle Eastern countries expect Japan to play.

(3) Challenges of the Middle Eastern countries and its engagement with the Indo-Pacific region.

Amane Kobayashi, Research Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan and Visiting Researcher at CRS, will provide a brief comment on the presentation given by Mr. Ghoneim.

The Center for Rule-making Strategies (CRS) welcomes Craig Kafura, Research Associate at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

Craig will share his first-cut analysis of the 2018 US Midterm Election that took place on November 6. He will also present his findings from the recent Chicago Council survey result on foreign policy outlook of the United States.