Professor Celeste Wallander (Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington): Putin has been very good at casting the United States as being kind of a, you know, a rogue state in its behavior and threatening to all the countries of Europe, not just Russia, but other countries of Europe.

NPR: Rice, Gates Appeal to Moscow for Missile Defense

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is trying to "revive anti-British feeling which he imagines is still in the Iranian psyche, " said Shaul Bakhash, a professor of Middle East history at George Mason University outside of Washington.

CNN: Iran's attacks on UK tap into centuries of suspicion

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for a program to be moderated by Nathan Brown , Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University and a senior associate in the Middle East Program at Carnegie.

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