News

Ilan Berman radio interview with BBC Russia Service re: new U.S. military strategy

Ilan Berman TV interview with NTN 24 (Portugal) re: Egypt

Ilan Berman radio interview with BBC Russia Service re: Egypt, U.S. policy

Ilan Berman print interview with RealClearPolitics re: state-level sanctions against Iran

Ilan Berman radio interview with Radio Free Asia re: unrest in Egypt

Ilan Berman video interview with WSJ.com re: Egyptian unrest; democracy in the Middle East

Ilan Berman radio interview with Secure Freedom Radio re: New START, strategic modernization

Ilan Berman radio interview with Voice of America’s Russia Service re: Medvedev’s trip to the Mideast; endorsement of a Palestinian state

Ilan Berman radio interview with WOR AM New York re: Stuxnet, Iran

Ilan Berman TV interview with the Fox News Channel re: Stuxnet, Iran

Ilan Berman radio interview with WTIC AM Hartford re: Iran, U.S. policy

Between December 19 and 24, an AFPC delegation visited the Russian regions of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan to conduct field research on Russia’s Muslim minority, confessional relations in the Russian heartland, and the rising threat of Islamic radicalism within the Russian Federation. The delegation – led by AFPC President Herman Pirchner and AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman – traveled to Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, and subsequently to Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan and the spiritual seat of Russia’s Muslim community.

On December 16, Jeff M. Smith was interviewed on Fox 5 News regarding President Obama's Afghan war Strategy Review, the death of Amb. Richard Holbrooke, and Pakistan's role in the Afghan war effort.

On November 17, 2010, Jeff M. Smith spoke on a panel with John Norris from the Center for American Progress about the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan's role in that conflict.

AFPC Vice President Ilan Berman was interviewed in the November 17th episode of the Christian Broadcasting Network's "Stakelbeck on Terror" program on the strategic partnership between Iran and Venezuela.

Jeff M. Smith was interviewed on KION 1460 AM (California) to discuss President Obama's three-day trip to India and his support for a permanent seat for India at the UN Security Council.

On November 3, 2010, Jeff M. Smith gave a lecture to a group of several hundred World Affairs Council members on the topic of U.S.-India relations and India's regional security challenges.

On Monday, October 4, 2010, AFPC hosted a dinner with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The Kremlin’s envoy to the U.S. since 2008, Kislyak previously served as deputy minister of foreign affairs, as well as Russia’s permanent representative to NATO in Brussels