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From June 2005 to September 2008,
Roberto Alvarez held the position of permanent representative of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States (OAS) with the rank of ambassador. While at the OAS, he served as chairman of the Permanent Council (2005), chair of the Subcommittee on Partnership for Development Policies of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (2006–2007), and of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the Permanent Council (2007–2008). He was a member, with the rank of honorary ambassador, of the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from December 2008 until August 2010, when he resigned. On February 10, 2013, he was elected by the XIX Annual Assembly of Participación Ciudadana to its National Council for two years.
official and former executive director, dr. evelyn markus and msnbc national security analyst. also with us the dean of john hopkins school of advanced international studies. thank you so much for the beautiful remembrance of my father last week. thank you for doing that. let me ask you first, there were fears coming into this administration that donald trump would be a war monger along the lines of his national security adviser, john bolton, talking about bombing iran, bombing north korea. in fact, if anybody has reason to be concerned with donald trump right now it would be people like john bolton because he s bending over backwards, paying compliments to kim jong-un and now saying the leader of iran is a lovely man. how do you sort through that? what do you make of it?
in iran protests are now in their seventh day. former senior adviser to president obama joining us, dean of the john hopkins school of advanced international studies, and the former deputy national security adviser to president george w. bush. we have a regime divided, people in the streets, an economic impetus now morphing into the political? exactly. it s a whole new phenomenon in iran that you have the poor, upper class, and middle people demanding economic justice. they re angry. they re in small towns. it s difficult for the regime to deal with it because a lot of them are the base of the regime. they re the kinds of people in
and read my washington post column this week. let s get started. let s dig deeper into the middle east cold and hot wars with a really terrific panel. joining me here in new york, robin wright a contributing writer at the u.s. institute of peace and the woodrow wilson center. the dean of the john hopkins school of advanced international studies and former top advisor at the state department. he s also an iranian american. he s now an executive vice president at brookings and in geneva, a visiting fellow at harvard s center for science and international affairs and a columnist for an arab newspaper.