Shifting Alliances: The ISIS Crisis & US-Kurdish Cooperation

The American Council on Germany and American Friends of Bucerius cordially invite you to a Discussion and Luncheon as part of the 2015 Transatlantic Global Agenda Series with David L. Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He will speak on his new book, Shifting Alliances: The ISIS Crisis & US-Kurdish Cooperation.

David L. Phillips is currently Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Mr. Phillips has worked as a Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretariat and as a Foreign Affairs Expert and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Department of State. He has held positions at academic institutions as Executive Director of Columbia University’s International Conflict Resolution Program, Director of American University’s Program on Conflict Prevention and Peace-building, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle East Studies and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Future of Diplomacy Project, and a Professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

He has worked at think tanks as Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Fellow at the Preventive Diplomacy Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, and Project Director at the International Peace Research Institute of Oslo. Mr. Phillips has also been a foundation executive, serving as President of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, Executive Director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation and as Director of the European Centre for Common Ground.

He is author of The Kurdish Spring: A New Map of the Middle East (Transaction Publishing, 2015), Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention (Harvard University’s Belfer Center and MIT Press, early 2012), From Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition (Transaction Press, 2008), Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco (Perseus Books, 2005), Unsilencing the Past: Track Two Diplomacy and Turkish-Armenian Reconciliation (Berghahn Books, 2005).  Mr. Phillips has also authored many policy reports, as well as more than 100 articles in leading publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, and Foreign Affairs.

To read more about David Phillips’ new book, please click here.

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