Jordan: Caught in the Middle

Event Details

Foreign Service official and U.S. ambassador to Jordan (1981-1984) discusses various issues and events related to the Persian Gulf crisis in Jordan. During the questioning time, comments on the relationship between the domestic situation and the U.S. foreign policy, the necessity of the Persian Gulf War, the role of power fear in mobilization of foreign participants involved, possible preventive effects of the war, role of balance-of-power thinking in the decision-making concerning the war, the U.S. interests in Iraq, and conspiracy theories related to the war.