Synopsis

Kurtzer and Lasensky offer the definitive guidebook on how to broker peace in the Middle East. Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace sets forth a compelling, interestsbased framework for American engagement in the peace process, provides a critical assessment of U.S. diplomacy since the end of the Cold War, and offers a set of ten core lessons to guide the efforts of future American negotiators.

This concise volume is the product of the United States Institute of Peace's Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, which brings together some of America's most respected and experienced authorities in the field, including William B. Quandt, Steven L. Spiegel, and Shibley I. Telhami. The book draws on months of groundbreaking consultations with over one hundred statesmen, political leaders, and civil society figures who have defined Middle East peacemaking in our times.

About the Author:
Daniel C. Kurtzer is a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and Egypt, who currently holds the S. Daniel Abraham Chair at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School

About the Author:
Scott B. Lasensky is a senior research associate and Middle East expert at the United States Institute of Peace. He and Kurtzer codirect the Institute's Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking

Biography

Daniel C. Kurtzer is a former United States ambassador to Israel and Egypt, and currently holds the S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Coauthor of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace (USIP Press, 2008), Scott B. Lasensky is a senior program officer at the Institute's Center for Conflict Management and directed USIP's Iraq and Its Neighbors initiative.