steven a cook

Steven A Cook (@StevenACook), Senior fellow of Middle East and North African studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us to talk about our relationship with Turkey since Trump became president. Why is Turkey upset with the United States? The obsession with Fethullah Gulen by Erdogan’s supporters.

Steven A. Cook (@StevenACook) on his book “False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East.” Why celebrations of Turkish democracy turned out to be premature. Why the enthusiasm for Libya was equally misplaced. Then, Avi Asher-Schapiro on his Intercept piece, “As Uber Probes Sexual Harassment At Its Offices, It Overlooks Hundreds Of […]