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Kissinger in the Middle East - Lessons in Diplomacy
Join The Common Good as we discuss the lessons we can take from the brilliant strategic efforts and the carefully considered steps of the past to seek more effective efforts for peace in the future. There are lessons here for diplomacy that can be employed not only in that region but in other conflicts around the world.
About The Event
Palestinians, though three presidents have tried and failed.
To understand the role of American diplomacy in the Middle East, Ambassador Martin Indyk returned to the origins of America-led peace efforts and the man who created the Middle East peace process - Henry Kissinger. Based on his research into American and Israeli archives, interviews with Kissinger, and his own years of experience as the US ambassador to Israel, Indyk’s new book, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy, offers the key to securing stability, and with that, peace in the Middle East.
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Martin S. Indyk is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was the John C. Whitehead Distinguished Fellow in International Diplomacy in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Indyk served as the U.S. special envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations from July 2013 to June 2014. Prior to his time as special envoy, he was vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program and a senior fellow and the founding director of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.
Robert Hormats has served five U.S. presidential administrations, including as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador, and Senior Economic advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski on the National Security Council staff in the White House. He served as Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment with Secretary Clinton His experience in the financial sector includes 25 years at Goldman Sachs (International) rising to the level of Vice Chairman.
Foreign Affairs and Economic Policy with Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger
The Common Good hosted a lunch and discussion with the Honorable Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State to reflect on current US foreign policy and economic policy.
The Common Good hosted a lunch and discussion with the Honorable Henry Kissinger, Former Secretary of State, to reflect on current US foreign policy and economic policy.
Henry A. Kissinger was the 56th Secretary of State of the United States from 1973 to 1977, continuing to hold the position of Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1969 to 1975. After leaving government service, he founded Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm, of which he is chairman. He served in the Army and was educated at Harvard University, where he then served on the faculty from 1954-71. In the Nixon administration, Kissinger served as the president’s National Security Advisor and then as Secretary of State. Kissinger was the go-between in the secret negotiations that eventually opened relations between the U.S. and communist China.
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