Dennis Ross

"Statecraft, And How to Restore America's Standing in the World"

Tuesday, Sept. 11 , 2007
3:30 p.m.
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

This lecture is open by invitation only. Invited parties who wish to attend should email Kyle McCray at mccray.44 by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6.

A highly skilled diplomat, Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He was instrumental in assisting Israelis and Palestinians to reach the 1995 Interim Agreement; he also successfully brokered the 1997 Hebron Accord, facilitated the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty, and intensively worked to bring Israel and Syria together.

A scholar and diplomat with more than two decades of experience in Soviet and Middle East 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 Staff in the first Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a prominent role in U.S. policy toward the former Soviet Union, the unification of Germany and its integration into NATO, arms control negotiations, and the 1991 Gulf War coalition.

The New York Times called Ross's new book, Statecraft, And How to Restore America's Standing in the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2007), "important and illuminating." Ross will visit the Mershon Center to discuss the book with a small group of Ohio State faculty and graduate students. Those who attend will receive a copy of the book.

Dennis Ross
Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow
Washington Institute for Near East Policy