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Dennis Ross

American Middle East envoy Dennis Ross has served in the Administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, and is counselor and Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington.

Latest Articles

  • By Dennis Ross

    Trump’s Middle East Policy: An Arab Perspective

    */ One official I met in travelling in the Middle East said, “There are two projects in the Middle East. One is Turkey, Qatar, and Iran and the other is Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Egypt, Jordan and Israel.  And, the United States should be supporting the latter group because they are committe...

  • By Dennis Ross

    Nature Abhors a Vacuum

    Nature abhors a vacuum.  So does the world of power politics.  It should come as no surprise that after President Trump declared he would be withdrawing US forces from Syria, the rush to fill the vacuum has heated up even before the US is out.  It is not only that Daesh is trying to show they are...

  • By Dennis Ross

    George HW Bush Embodied Values of Decency, Humility, Courage, and Empathy   

    No one who ever assumed the presidency was more prepared for the job than George H.W. Bush.  He had been the head of our mission to China, ambassador to the United Nations, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and then Vice President. Prior to his service in the executive branch of...

  • By Dennis Ross

    America’s Role in the New Middle East

    For most policy-makers and pundits, the Middle East has long been a tinderbox.  American presidents in the past feared a US-Soviet confrontation in the event of Arab-Israeli wars.  Richard Nixon, at the outset of his presidency, said a major effort was needed to prevent a war.  In no small part,...

  • By Dennis Ross

    The Assad Regime and its Iranian Patron Are No Prize for Russia

    Russia has made itself the arbiter of events in Syria.  Its military intervention and use of intensive bombing allowed it to change the balance of forces on the ground and save the Assad regime.  But the Assad regime and its Iranian patron are no prize.  True, the Iranians aim to remove all...

  • By Dennis Ross

    Iran Will Raise the Price on the US Before it Shows Signs of Cracking

    The Trump Administration has now snapped back the first round of sanctions on Iran. Cars, planes, precious metals and currency are effected. The harsher sanctions designed to preclude the buying of Iranian oil won’t be re-imposed until November 4th. The impact of both the first and second round...

  • By Dennis Ross

    The Trump-Putin Summit: What Washington’s Agenda Should Be

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  • By Dennis Ross

    Arab Leaders Need to Play a More Prominent Role on Peace-Making

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