Crisis in Global Affairs Featuring Irina Tsukerman, Patricia DeGennaro, and Ashraf Nubani

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In this episode, Editor-In-Chief of The Washington Outsider Irina Tsukerman, Professor Patricia DeGennaro, and Attorney Ashraf Nubani discuss the impacts of the Israeli-Hamas Conflict and other global crises. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erik-fleming1/support

Patricia DeGennaro

Patricia (Tricia) DeGennaro is a Geopolitical Analyst and Strategic Change Consultant. Prior to this position, she was a Subject Matter Expert for the Balkans Next research initiative at Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) on MacDill Air Force Base and a Senior Political Scientist in support of the US Central Command.
In past years, she was a Subject Matter Expert on the Middle East and Afghanistan for the US Army’s Training and Doctrine Command Operational Environment Training Support Center, a Professor at New York University’s Department of International Affairs, and a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
DeGennaro capitalizes on over twenty years of experience as an academic, military advisor and practitioner in international security policy. Much of her work focuses on geopolitical analysis, strategic communications, countering terrorism and violent extremism, and transitioning nations from war. She has spent considerable time in the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan on information operations, security policy, civilian and military affairs, provincial governance, capacity building, and joint interagency, intergovernmental and multinational coordination.
DeGennaro holds an MBA in International Trade and Finance from George Washington University and an MA in International Security Policy and Conflict Resolution from Harvard University. She speaks fluent Albanian and knowledge of Italian, Arabic and Dari.

Irina Tsukerman

President

Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security lawyer based in New York and a Fellow at the Arabian Peninsula Institute. She runs a boutique national security law practice. She is a Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. She is a member of the American Bar Association's Energy and Environment and Science and Technology Sections. She is the Program Vice Chair in the Oil and Gas Subcommittee. She is also a member of the New York City Bar Association's Middle East and North African Affairs Committee and an affiliate member of the Foreign & Comparative Law Committee. In addition, Irina Tsukerman is the President of Scarab Rising, Inc., a media and security strategic advisory, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Outsider, a project of Scarab Rising, focused on foreign policy, geopolitics, security, and human rights. Irina hosts The Washington Outsider Report program on The Coalition Radio station, and frequently writes about world affairs in diverse US and international publications. She has appeared in the media all over the world as a geopolitical specialist dedicated to actionable analysis, and her writings and comments have been translated to over a dozen languages. Irina is a member of the editorial board of The Maghreb and Orient Courier. She is a member of the New York-based Foreign Policy Association. Irina specializes in information warfare; she has written and spoken extensively on active measures by Russia, China, and Iran and influence campaigns by Middle Eastern state actors, as well as on the impact of active measures an… Read More