This is event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required via the Columbia or SIPA calendars. Registration opens at 12 noon on Monday, September 8, 2014.

Please join Saltzman Institute members and frequent media contributors Austin Long and Stuart Gottlieb for a discussion of the growing regional and global threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

Stuart Gottlieb teaches US foreign policy and counterterrorism at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). He formerly served as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter in the US senate.

Austin Long teaches international security, intelligence, and low intensity conflict in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). During the 2014-15 academic year he will be a Council on Foreign Relations fellow serving in the US Department of Defense.

For further information regarding this event, please contact Maggie Li by sending email to mL3408@columbia.edu or by calling (212) 854-7879.