The Evolving U.S.-Israel Relationship: Doomed to Succeed? 2016.01.20

Non-CAS Event

Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 5:15 p.m.
The Brown Palace Hotel, 321 17th St. Denver, CO 80202

Featuring Ambassador Dennis Ross, Counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Event Details

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Networking Reception & Book Signing

6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Program with Q+A & Book Signing

7:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Optional Dinner at Ellyngton's (limited space available)

About Ambassador Dennis Ross

Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was the 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.

During the Reagan administration, Ambassador Ross served as director of Near East and South Asian affairs on the National Security Council staff and deputy director of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment. He was awarded the Presidential Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by President Clinton, and Secretaries Baker and Albright presented him with the State Department's highest award.

A 1970 graduate of UCLA, Ambassador Ross wrote his doctoral dissertation on Soviet decision making, and from 1984 to 1986 served as executive director of the Berkeley-Stanford program on Soviet International Behavior. He received UCLA's highest medal and has been named UCLA alumnus of the year. He has also received honorary doctorates from Brandeis, Amherst, Jewish Theological Seminary, and Syracuse University.

The Ambassador's most recent book, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,October 2015), will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Ambassador Ross's recent NPR interview here.

More information and online registration:The Evolving U.S.-Israel Relationship: Doomed to Succeed? with Ambassador Dennis Ross