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Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President

Name: Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President
Author: Richard N. Haass
ISBN: 9780815738695

by Richard N. Haass, Martin S. Indyk

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Overview

The forty-fourth U.S. president will face a series of critical, complex, and interrelated challenges in the Middle East that will demand immediate attention. George W. Bush's model of regime change and democratization will no longer suit the changing circumstances likely to confront the next administration. Fresh ideas, nonpartisan analysis, and clear-eyed recommendations are needed, and this authoritative book heeds the call.

Synopsis

The next U.S. president will need to pursue a new strategic framework for advancing American interests in the Middle East. The mounting challenges include sectarian conflict in Iraq, IranÕs pursuit of nuclear capabilities, failing Palestinian and Lebanese governments, a dormant peace process, and the ongoing war against terror. Compounding these challenges is a growing hostility toward U.S. involvement in the Middle East. The old policy paradigms, whether President George W. BushÕs model of regime change and democratization or President Bill ClintonÕs model of peacemaking and containment, will no longer suit the likely circumstances confronting the next administration in the Middle East.

The New York Times - Ethan Bronner

…a thoughtful and nicely structured collection of seven essays that examine the Iranian challenge and its many parts…The essays display nuance and realism…Restoring the Balance is a very useful and readable introduction to the thinking behind the coming shift.

About the Author, Richard N. Haass

Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Until June 2003 he was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell on a broad range of foreign policy concerns. Previously, Haass was vice president and director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He was also special assistant to President George H. W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, 1989-93. He is the author or editor of ten books in American foreign policy, including The Opportunity: America's Moment to Alter History's Course. Martin S. Indyk is the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He served in several senior positions in the U.S. government, most recently as ambassador to Israel and assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs, and he was also a founding executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.