Speaker Series

The Chevy Chase At Home Speaker Series invites well-respected authors, journalists, academics, and experts to speak to our community.

Often nationally known, these speakers offer their expertise on a wide array of fascinating topics, including local history, current affairs, and personal well-being.

These free events bring thoughtful conversation and intellectual enrichment to the entire community. Generally held each month, they are open to our members and volunteers, as well as the wider community.

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Gulliver's Troubles: America in the Middle East with Aaron David Miller

Thursday, April 23, 2026, 1:00-2:00 pm

At times watching the US in the Middle East America appears as a modern-day Gulliver wandering around in a region it often fails to understand; tied up by powers large and small whose interests are frequently not its own and burdened by its own illusions. What are US interests in the Middle East and how can America best protect them?

Join Aaron David Miller veteran State Department Middle East analyst, adviser, negotiator in Republican and Democratic Administrations in conversation.

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008), and hosts Carnegie Connects, Carnegie’s premier live podcast. Miller’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs.  He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and Sirius XM radio. 

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