{"631386":{"#nid":"631386","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Death of a General: What\u2019s next for Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELawrence Rubin, an associate professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in \u003Cem\u003EThe Foreign Policy Centre\u003C\/em\u003E article \u0026quot;The Death of a General: What\u0026rsquo;s next for Iran, Iraq and the wider Middle East?\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lawrence Rubin (Associate Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology) believes that \u0026lsquo;concerning implications for the region, it\u0026rsquo;s too early to say given the uncertainty in Iraqi politics and the most recent gaffe from US regarding troop withdrawal.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;Naturally, the most important aspect will be how it plays out in Iraqi politics and second, how the US manages it. Sectarian politics have and will continue to play a role because of which Iraqi groups\u0026rsquo; interests are more closely aligned with the US presence in the region.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fpc.org.uk\/the-death-of-a-general\/\u0022\u003EFind the article on \u003Cem\u003EThe Foreign Policy Centre\u003C\/em\u003E website.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34435","created_gmt":"2020-01-21 17:09:07","changed_gmt":"2020-01-21 17:09:07","author":"jpalacios9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Lake Warden","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/fpc.org.uk\/the-death-of-a-general\/","dateline":{"date":"2020-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-01-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"615430":{"id":"615430","type":"image","title":"Lawrence Rubin","body":null,"created":"1544817786","gmt_created":"2018-12-14 20:03:06","changed":"1544817786","gmt_changed":"2018-12-14 20:03:06","alt":"Nunn School Associate Professor Lawrence Rubin","file":{"fid":"234333","name":"2018 12 Larry Rubin.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3949259,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2018%2012%20Larry%20Rubin.jpg?itok=TZBOcFzO"}}},"media_ids":["615430"],"groups":[{"id":"1286","name":"Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP)"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4062","name":"Middle East"},{"id":"8319","name":"iran"},{"id":"3143","name":"Iraq"},{"id":"183657","name":"Qasim Soleimani"},{"id":"183658","name":"US Foreign Policy"},{"id":"183659","name":"Sam Nunn School of"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}