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CLEVELAND:
Aaron David Miller, a public policy
scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars since 2006,
will speak about his first book The
Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli
Peace at
noon on
Friday,
April 11, 2008,
at The City Club of Cleveland.
In his book,
Miller explores the following questions:
Why has the world’s greatest superpower failed to broker, or
impose, a solution in the
Middle East?
If a solution is possible, what would it take? And why after so
many years of struggle and failure, with the entire region even
more unsettled than ever, should Americans even care? Is
Israel/Palestine really the “much too promised land?”
Between 2003 and 2006, Miller served as
president of Seeds of Peace, a non-profit organization dedicated
to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the
leadership skills required to advance coexistence and
reconciliation.
From 1988 to 2003, Miller 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 also served as the
deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli
negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s Policy
Planning Staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in
the Office of the Historian. He has received the Department’s
Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.
A
Cleveland
native, Miller is the eldest son of Samuel H. and Ruth Ratner
Miller.
Tickets are
$18 for members and $30 for non-members. Lunch is included. They
can be purchased by calling The City Club at
216.621.0082
or visiting the website at
www.cityclub.org. |
