Ambassador Dennis Ross speaking at Emory University

Dennis B. Ross is an American author and political figure who served as the director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H.W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton. The envoy and chief negotiator under both Republican and Democratic presidents, Ross was integral in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process during his tenure. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (3271 × 2437 pixel, file size: 4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 596 pixelsFull resolution (3271 × 2437 pixel, file size: 4. ... Emory University is a private university located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. ... Cosette Dwyer is an amazing author. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics, sometimes this may include political scientists. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Envoy may refer to: a diplomat Envoy (WordPerfect), a document reader and document file format GMC Envoy, a make of automobile The Envoy, a 1982 album by Warren Zevon The Call Sign For United Kingdom Airline Flyjet Category: ... Negotiation is the process whereby interested parties resolve disputes, agree upon courses of action, bargain for individual or collective advantage, and/or attempt to craft outcomes which serve their mutual interests. ... The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. ... The presidential seal is a well-known symbol of the presidency. ... The UN Partition Plan Map of the State of Israel today The Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has taken shape over the years, despite the ongoing violence in the Middle East. ...

For more than twelve years, Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and in dealing directly with the negotiations. A skilled diplomat, Ross was responsible in both the G.H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations for exploring all avenues and approaches to settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As an architect of the peace process, he helped the Israelis and Palestinians in reaching the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and brokered the Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron in 1997. He facilitated the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace and also worked on talks between Israel and Syria. A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. ... Israel, with the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is often claimed to be at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, is an ongoing dispute between two peoples, Jewish Israelis and Arab Palestinians, who both claim the right to sovereignty over the Land... The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip or Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement, or simply the Interim Agreement, also known as Oslo 2 (or Oslo II), and alternately known as Taba, was a key and complex agreement about the future of the Gaza Strip and the West... Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, also known as The Hebron Protocol or Hebron Agreement, began January 7 and was concluded from January 15 to January 17, 1997 between Israel, represented by Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), represented by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat... The Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace (full name: Treaty of Peace Between the State of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan) (Hebrew:הסכם השלום בין ישראל לירדן; transliterated: HaSekhem Ha-Shalom beyn Yisrael Le-Yarden) (Arabic: معاهدة السلام الأردنية الإسرائيلية; transliterated: Muahadat as-Salam al-Orduniyah al-Israyliyah, and commonly referred to as Araba Valley...

Ross's memoir, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace tells the inside story of efforts to negotiate peace over the 1990s and outlines the key lessons to be drawn from that experience. While having worked under both Republican and Democratic administrations, Ross himself is a Democrat.^[1] He remains a frequent commentator on Middle East issues and analyst on the outcome of current events. He is now counselor of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a Jewish organization founded in 1985 by Martin Indyk, previously research director of the leading pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). ...

Life and career

Cover of Ross's book, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

Ross was born on November 26, 1948, in San Francisco. He is married and has three children. According to his book, he was raised in Marin County, California, by his Jewish mother and Catholic stepfather, who maintained a non-religious household atmosphere. Ross did his undergraduate and graduate studies at UCLA, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on Soviet decisionmaking. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 401 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (434 × 648 pixel, file size: 40 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Book cover This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 401 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (434 × 648 pixel, file size: 40 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Book cover This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover... November 26 is the 330th day (331st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Marin County is a county located in Californias San Francisco Bay Area, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... Binomial name Ucla xenogrammus Holleman, 1993 The largemouth triplefin, Ucla xenogrammus, is a fish of the family Tripterygiidae and only member of the genus Ucla, found in the Pacific Ocean from Viet Nam, the Philippines, Palau and the Caroline Islands to Papua New Guinea, Australia (including Christmas Island), and the...

A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle Eastern policy, Ross worked closely with Secretaries of State James Baker, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright. Prior to his service as Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, Ross served as Director of the State Department's Policy Planning office during the G.H.W Bush administration. In that position, he played a prominent role in US policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the development of the Gulf War coalition. He served as director of Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council staff during the Reagan administration, and as Deputy Director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. Soviet redirects here. ... James Addison Baker III (born 28 April 1930 in Houston, Texas) served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagans first administration, United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H... Warren Minor Christopher (born October 27, 1925) is an American diplomat and lawyer. ... Madeleine Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelová, IPA: , on May 15, 1937) was the first woman to become United States Secretary of State. ... NATO 2002 Summit in Prague. ... Combatants UN Coalition Republic of Iraq Commanders Norman Schwarzkopf, Peter de la Billière, Khalid bin Sultan, Saleh Al-Muhaya, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Saddam Hussein Strength 883,863 360,000 Casualties 378 dead, 1,000 wounded see section below The Gulf War or the Persian Gulf War (16 January 1991... Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981 – 1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967 – 1975). ...

In 1981, following the election of President Ronald Reagan, the newly appointed U.S. National Security Advisor Richard V. Allen was put in charge of assembling the Reagan administration's foreign policy advisory team. Allen offered Paul Wolfowitz the position of Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. State Department. In this position Wolfowitz and his newly selected staff, that included Lewis Libby, Francis Fukuyama, Ross, Alan Keyes, Zalmay Khalilzad, Stephen Sestanovich and James Roche, were responsible for defining the Reagan administration's long-term foreign policy goals. The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, serves as the chief advisor to the President of the United States on national security issues. ... Richard V. Allen was the United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1982. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American former academic and government official. ... I. Lewis Scooter Libby Irve Lewis Scooter Libby, Jr. ... Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born October 27, 1952, Chicago, Illinois), an American philosopher, political economist and author. ... Dr. Alan Keyes (born August 7, 1950) is a public speaker, former diplomat, and conservative political activist. ... Dr. Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad (Pashtu/Persian: ‎ ) (born 22 March 1951) is the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. ... Stephen Sestanovich is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University He previously worked in the Reagan administration on the policy planning staff in the Reagan administration and server as Ambassador-at-large and Special Adviser to the Secretary for... James G. Roche Dr. James G. Roche is the 20th Secretary of the Air Force. ...

Ross wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decision-making and served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior from 1984-1986.

President Clinton awarded Ross the Presidential medal for "Distinguished Federal Civilian Service" and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department’s highest award. Ross has received the UCLA Medal, the university's highest honor. He has also received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary, Syracuse University and Amherst College. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, known in the Jewish community simply as JTS, is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism, and is the movements main rabbinical seminary. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. ... Amherst College is a private, independent, elite[1][2] liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. It is the third oldest college in Massachusetts. ...

Ambassador Dennis Ross (right) with Ehud Barak in 1999

During his years of trying to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he was criticized by people on both sides of the conflict. Palestinians made repeated references to the fact that he is Jewish, and some right-wing conservative Israelis branded him "self-hating" — each questioning his ability to be unbiased. [1][2] Some of his articles have been published by both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sources.[3][4] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Ehud Barak (Hebrew: אֵהוּד בָּרָק) (born Ehud Brog on February 12, 1942) is an Israeli politician. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination...

Currently, Ross is Director and Ziegler distinguished fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the first chairman of a new Jerusalem based think tank, the Institute for Jewish People Policy Planning, funded and founded by the Jewish Agency. In the fall of 2005, taught a class in Mid-East Peace at Brandeis University, and taught it again at Georgetown University in the fall of 2006. He currently (Spring 2007) teaches Strategic Negotiation and Statecraft at Georgetown University, and will be teaching a similar course in Fall 2007. Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is a Jewish organization founded in 1985 by Martin Indyk, previously research director of the leading pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac). ... The Jewish Agency for Israel also known as The Jewish Agency (or sochnut in Hebrew), was previously called the Jewish Agency for Palestine (during the British Mandate of Palestine) is an Israeli organisation that advocates for Israel and is composed mainly, but not entirely, of Jewish people. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. ... Georgetown University, incorporated as the The President and Directors of the College of Georgetown, is a private university in the United States, located in Georgetown, a historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. With roots extending back to March 25, 1634 and founded in its current form on January 23, 1789...

Ross is a Foreign Affairs Analyst for the Fox News Channel in addition to being a frequent commentator in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Ross's first column at The New Republic, "Statecraft", was published on April 9, 2007.^[2] Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ... The Washington Post is the largest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ... For other uses, see the New Republic disambiguation page. ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

External links

• Dennis Ross discusses The Missing Peace at the Carnegie Council
• Ross's biography at the Washington Institute
• Exhausted Are the Peacemakers, New York Times Book Review
• Process but No Peace, Policy Review
• Speaker: Dennis Ross Criticizes Carter's Factual Errors
• The Receding Horizon: The Endless Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, Foreign Affairs
• Council on Foreign Relations Panel Discussion: America and the World: Challenges Facing the Next Administration--Remarks by Ambassador Dennis Ross

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Interviews

• Living the Peace Process, Interviewed by the Middle East Quarterly June 1996
• The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace, Interviewed by Thomas Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations September 13, 2004 (Video)
• The Missing Peace, Interviewed by Nonna Gorilovskaya, Mother Jones October 20, 2004
• Questions for Dennis Ross: Handling Hamas, Interviewed by Deborah Solomon, The New York Times February 5, 2006
• Problem Countries: Syria, Iran and Russia stir up trouble. Interviewed by Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal December 4, 2006

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Bibliography

• Dennis Ross. August 2004. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-19973-6.
• Dennis Ross. June 2007. Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: 0-374-29928-5
• Dennis Ross. 1985. Acting with Caution: Middle East Policy Planning for the Second Reagan Administration Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Policy Papers #1.
• Dennis Ross. August 2002. Reforming the Palestinian Authority: Requirements for Change. Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Policy Focus #43.
• Wrote the forword for Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad by Matthew Levitt. Yale University Press (May 1, 2006). ISBN 0300110537.

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• "The road map after Gaza", August 22, 2005

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• "The Middle East Predicament", January/February 2005

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• "Think Again: Yasir Arafat", July/August 2002

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• "A cease-fire reality: Dealing with Damascus", August 22, 2006
• "The First Word: What Olmert can expect from Bush", April 6, 2006
• "Too confused to surrender", July 2, 2006

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• "How to Handle Iran", TNR TV: How to make Tehran obey, April 25, 2007 (with Franklin Foer)
• "Internal Affairs", Don't count on Iran and Syria to solve our problems in Iraq. December 7, 2006
• "Roll Back", Israel's war with Lebanon looks like bad news for the United States. But, actually, it's an opportunity. July 22, 2006
• "Squeeze Play", Approach Tehran with sticks, not carrots. April 25, 2007
• Statecraft (Ross's column--Selected articles below)
  • "Balance of Power", The British sailors told us who's really running Iran, April 23, 2007
  • "Talk to Syria", Why Israel--and the United States--should talk to Syria. May 7, 2007
  • "Ways and Means", Introducing a new column on the art of statecraft, April 9, 2007

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• "Can Arafat Stop the Violence?", Now, at last, Yasir Arafat must decide that the Palestinian Authority will not be a safe haven for terrorists. December 4, 2001
• "Don't Play With Maps" What's the greatest barrier to Mideast peace? Mythology. The New York Times, January 9, 2007
• "Mideast Peace, One Day at a Time" For now, let's stop the killing. The road map can wait. May 8, 2003
• "Peace, One Very Small Step at a Time", February 9, 2001

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• "Arafat's death can breathe life into peace process", Yasser Arafat has dominated the Palestinian national movement for the past 40 years. He has been a fixture on the landscape of the Middle East. He came to embody the Palestinian cause and was determined that no other Palestinian figure could emerge as a possible alternative to him. November 10, 2004
• "The danger of a Sharon exit", Life after Sharon will not be so simple, particularly as Palestinians prepare to hold elections Wednesday and Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization, is poised to do well. January 23, 2006
• "A moment of truth for Syria", During the nearly 30-year rule of Hafez Assad, Syria came to control Lebanon and used terrorist groups Hezbollah, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to exert pressure (and at times reduce it) on others in the region. His son, Bashar, who has been the Syrian president for the past five years, seems to lack his father's guile and understanding of limits that need to be respected. November 8, 2005
• "An opening in the Mideast", President Bush declared in Europe that the world cannot rest until there is peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Certainly he knew that Europeans would welcome such words. But I suspect this was less a tactical gesture to the Europeans and more a statement of intent, reflecting his commitment to act on what he sees as an opportunity for promoting peace. March 2, 2005
• "U.S. should help construct an 'Arab umbrella'", In order to prevent the current crisis in the Middel East from growing, the United States must work with the Saudis, Egyptians, Jordanians and others who seem to recognize that Iran is manipulating Hezbollah and Hamas for its purposes. Such an "Arab umbrella" could justify in deploying the Lebanese army to Israel's border. July 18, 2006

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• "The Arab Coalition", From Iraq's neighbors, reason to hope for peace and reform. March 20, 2003
• "The Hidden Threat in the Mideast" Iran and Syria try to open a second front. July 24, 2002
• "No Sir, Yasser" Prepare to break relations with Arafat. February 2, 2002

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• "After Arafat, What?", November 5, 2004
• "The Art of Possible Peace", Rice's First Task: A Viable Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire, February 15, 2007
• "A Cease-Fire Reality: Dealing With Syria", August 17, 2006
• "Deadline for Hussein", Obfuscation after Dec. 8 should trigger war. November 12, 2002
• "Egypt's New Role", July 2, 2004
• "Give Hamas Nothing for Free", February 5, 2006
• "A New Strategy on Iran", May 1, 2006
• "Palestinian Stirrings", January 2, 2005
• "A Plan for Iraq", October 15, 2004
• "A Race Against Time in The Mideast", May 25, 2005
• "The Specter of 'Hamastan'", More Must Be Done to Counter Islamist Gains in Gaza, June 4, 2007

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References

1. ^ The Missing Peace, Dennis Ross Interviewed By Nonna Gorilovskaya, Mother Jones October 20, 2004
2. ^ STATECRAFT, A NEW COLUMN, Ways and Means