Considering the geographic expanse from Asia to the Middle East, this panel examines the exchange and flow of capital, oil, and natural gas between India and China on one hand, and the Middle East as represented by the Arab gulf and Iran on the other.
Speakers ask how tensions in Pakistan and Afghanistan, peace-making efforts from Turkey, and the Arab-Israeli conflict influence diplomacy in this huge area of the world where great wealth and greater conflict coincide.
Bio
Dr. Galia Golan
Dr. Galia Golan is Professor Emerita and former head of the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She presently leads the program in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution in the School of Government, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. At Hebrew University she was the founder of Israel's first program in women's studies and head of the Lafer Center for Women's Studies, as well as the head of the Mayrock Center for Soviet and East European Research. She is a leader of Peace Now (the Israeli Peace Movement), Bat Shalom (of the Jerusalem Link, a Palestinian and Israeli Women's Joint Venture for Peace), and the International Women's Commission for a Just Peace. She also serves on the Council of Pugwash and on the editorial board of The Palestine-Israel Journal and is a member of the executive committee of Meretz (Social Democratic Party).
Dr. Golan is the recipient of the New Israel Fund Women's Leadership Award and the Gleitsman Foundation Activism Award. The author of nine books, mainly on Soviet policies in the Middle East, she has also written on women and politics, non-state actors in conflict resolution, and globalization. Her most recent book is Israel and Palestine: Peace Plans and Proposals from Oslo to Disengagement (Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton).
Geoffrey Kemp
Geoffrey Kemp is the Director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center. He received his Ph.D. in political science at M.I.T. and his M.A. and B.A. degrees from Oxford University. He served in the White House during the first Reagan administration and was Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs on the National Security Council Staff.
Prior to his current position, he was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he was Director of the Middle East Arms Control Project. In the 1970s he worked in the Defense Department in the Policy Planning and Program Analysis and Evaluation Offices and made major contributions to studies on U.S. security policy and options for Southwest Asia. In 1976, while working for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, he prepared a widely publicized report on U.S. Military Sales to Iran. His most recent publication is "Stopping the Iranian Bomb" which appeared in the Summer 2003 edition of The National Interest.
Aaron David Miller
Aaron David Miller joined the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars as a Public Policy Fellow in January 2006. For the prior two decades, he served at the Department of State as an adviser to six secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the Senior Adviser for Arab-Israeli Negotiations. He has received the department's Distinguished, Superior and Meritorious Honor awards.
Miller received his doctorate in American Diplomatic and Middle East History from the University of Michigan in 1977 and joined the State Department the following year. During 1982 and 1983, he was a Council on Foreign Relations fellow and a resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 1984 he served a temporary tour at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Between 1998 and 2000, Miller served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. After leaving the State Department, Miller served as president of Seeds of Peace from January 2003 until January 2006. Seeds of Peace is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence.
Miller has made numerous appearances on CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX News, PBS, National Public Radio, the BBC, CBC, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera. He has been a featured presenter for the World Economic Forum in Davos and Amman, The City Club of Cleveland, Chatham House, The International Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University and the University of California, Berkeley, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The International Herald Tribune.
He authored his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace, in 2008. Miller's other books include The Arab States and the Palestine Question: Between Ideology and Self Interest, The PLO and the Politics of Survival and The Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939-1949.
Geographic region where Europe, Africa, and Asia meet. It is an unofficial and imprecise term that now generally encompasses the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea—notably Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, and Syria—as well as Iran, Iraq, and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. Afghanistan, Libya, Turkey, and The Sudan are sometimes also included. The term was formerly used by Western geographers and historians to describe the region from the Persian Gulf to Southeast Asia; Near East is sometimes used to describe the same area.
They start off with the wrong take. The Jewish Stateīs legitimacy does not depend on Israelīs relationship to Palestinians, its like saying that Free Cuba gives the USA Legitimacy. Israel has been a State for over 60 years without Palestine. Lets wake up and not blame the Jews for Muslim distorted history. Iīd rather have the Wall instead of Suicide bombers. To talk about morality and international law, to Jews with their Jewish Historical International Betrayal. Outside pressure is USELESS,. because Jews do not trust the world the International community has always turned their back on Jews. History here is more important than 232 years of American history compared to 5771 years for Jews. Why should Jews listen to the arrogant baby America. Nothing is agreed, Jerusalem will never be shared, Never Again. Ganging up on Israel is stuck on stupid, Jews have been isolated for over 3000 years a few more so what, the whole world can talk isolation, boycott etc. USELESS talk. You have to know the JEWISH MIND; HISTORY CULTURE AND EVOLUTIONARY ATTITUDE. Do not forget Jews are the first Global society. Only 14 million Jews world-wide and yet influence is Global the rest is still trying to catch up to Jews. Canīt separate Jews from Israel! Slavery consciousness is that you work less when pressured, the more you pressure Israel the less progress you will make, see recently, Obama gets tough and Israel gives cold shoulder, Obama gets friendly, Israel talks. That is why they call the Chinese the Jews of the East. Ha Ha History. Hamas says We love death as much as you love life. Kill a Jew go to paradise! what about this education of hate. The world has made Israel what it is today, The yellow star to brand the Jew dates back to England 12 century. The broader issue is not the world.
The idea that without America, Israel is nothing, is a planned image, Jews kept Moses and Solomon alive for 250 years, keeping enemies at bay. Yes advertising, create an image reinforce it and use it. Take away America tomorrow Israel and China would be friends. So please donīt believe your own projections. The Jewish mind is a global mind. The core is history the Star of David on the One Dollar bill and on Washingtonīs presidential seal, and state dept.symbol. Israel makes its own security who invented the cell phone a Jew. These three do not give credit to Jews of Israel. Eating the moral fiber, what a bunch of Horse Manure, these projections sound very Christian totally disagree with this woman. Thanks Fora tv, Next time get some real Jews up there. The behind the scene talks are about Jerusalem, that the Jews will not share. simple as that never again! Blair gave up, Mitchell in hospital heart surgery, so Israel will drag this out for another 100 years until the right leaders have the right answers. Give back the Temple mount, move Mosque and you get a Palestinian State. Very simple but no one speaks about this. The Temple mount is the Elephant ignored. Good night Shalom.
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