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Aaron David Miller

Aaron David Milleris an American Middle East analyst, author, and negotiator. He is a senior fellow at theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace,focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He previously was vice president for new initiatives at theWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,and has been an advisor to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state. He is a Global Affairs Analyst forCNN.[1]

Aaron David Miller
Miller in 2014
Miller in 2014
BornCleveland,Ohio,U.S.
EducationTulane University
University of Michigan(BA,MA,PhD)
Period1980–present
SubjectMiddle East policy and analysis
SpouseLindsay
Children2
RelativesMax Miller(nephew)

Miller worked for theUnited States Department of Statefor 24 years (1978–2003). Between 1988 and 2003, Miller served six secretaries of state as an advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations, participating in American efforts to broker agreements betweenIsrael,Jordan,Syria,and thePalestinians.He left the State Department in January 2003 to serve as president ofSeeds of Peace,an international youth organization founded in 1993. In January 2006, Miller joined theWoodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarsin Washington, D.C., first as public policy scholar, and later as vice president for new initiatives.[2]In 2014, Miller published his fifth book,The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President.

Background

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Miller was born to aJewishfamily[3][4]inCleveland, Ohio,the eldest son of Ruth (née Ratner) andSamuel H. Miller.[5][6]He attendedShaker Heights High School,graduating in 1967.[7]

Education

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Miller began his undergraduate career atTulane Universityand spent a semester at theUniversity of Warwickon a history honors exchange program before graduating from theUniversity of Michiganwith aB.A.in 1971. Continuing on toward an M.A. inAmerican Civil Warhistory,[8][9]Miller changed fields to Middle Eastern and American diplomacy and spent 1973 to 1974 inJerusalemstudying Arabic and Hebrew. He completed hisPh.D.in 1977. His dissertation,Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1980, and in paperback in 1991.[10][11][12]

Government career

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Miller entered the Department of State in November 1978 as an historian in theBureau of Public AffairsOffice of the Historian, where he edited the documentary seriesForeign Relations of the United States.In November 1980, he became the State Department's top analyst for Lebanon and the Palestinians in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). Awarded an International Affairs Fellowship by theCouncil on Foreign Relations,he spent 1982–83 at theCenter for Strategic and International Studiesand the CFR in New York, where he wrote his second book,The PLO and the Politics of Survival.The following year he returned to INR and served a temporary tour at the U.S. Embassy inAmman, Jordan,before joining the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff in 1985. Between 1985 and 1993, Miller advised Secretaries of StateGeorge ShultzandJames Baker,helping the latter plan theMadridPeace Conference of October 1991.

In June 1993, Miller was appointed Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator.[13][14]For the next seven years, he worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. role in Arab–Israeli negotiations through theOslo process,multilateral Arab–Israeli economic summits, theIsraeli–Jordanian peace treaty,and final status negotiations between Israel and Syria and between Israel and the Palestinians atCamp Davidin July 2000. Miller continued work on Arab–Israeli issues in theGeorge W. Bushadministration,[15]serving as the senior advisor on Arab–Israeli negotiations in theBureau of Near Eastern Affairsto Secretary of StateColin Powell.[16]He resigned from the Department of State in January 2003 to become president of Seeds of Peace.[17]

After government

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In January 2006, Miller became a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,[18]where he planned and participated in programs on the Middle East and Arab–Israeli issues. In 2008, he completed his fourth book,The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab–Israeli Peace,an insider's look based on 160 interviews with former presidents, secretaries of state, Arabs, and Israelis, American Jews, Arabs, and evangelical Christians on why America succeeded and failed in Arab–Israeli diplomacy over the past 40 years.[19]

Media and public speaking

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Throughout his career, Miller has made frequent media and speaking appearances as an expert on Arab–Israeli and Middle Eastern issues, including onCNN,[20][21][22]PBS,[23]Fox News,[24]theBBC,[25]theCBC,[26]andAl Jazeera.

In 2005 Miller was a featured presenter at theWorld Economic Forumin bothDavosandAmman, Jordan.He has also lectured atHarvard University,Columbia University,New York University,University of California at Berkeley,University of Michigan,University of Virginia,TheCity Club of Cleveland,Chatham House,and TheInternational Institute for Strategic Studies.

His articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in numerous publications, includingThe New York Times,The Washington Post,Los Angeles Times,The Wilson Quarterly,andThe International Herald Tribune.

Awards

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Miller has received the Department of State's Distinguished, Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards. Between 1998 and 2000, he was appointed by PresidentBill Clintonto serve on theU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Governing Council.[27]In 2005, he was awarded theEllis Island Medal of Honor.[28]

Personal life

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Miller lives with his wife, Lindsay.[29]They have two adult children, Jenny and Danny. Danny Miller is the founder of the Psychedelic Society of Brooklyn.[30]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949(Paperback, University of North Carolina Press, 1991)ISBN978-0-8078-4324-6
  • PLO: Politics of Survival(Paperback, Praeger Press, 1983)ISBN978-0-275-91583-4
  • The Arab States and the Palestine Question: Between Ideology and Self-Interest(Paperback,Praeger Press,1986)ISBN978-0-275-92216-0
  • The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace(Hardcover, Bantam Books, 2008)ISBN978-0-553-80490-4
  • The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President(Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)ISBN978-1-137-27900-2

Articles

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  • "The Abandonment: How the Bush Administration Left Israelis and Palestinians to Their Fate"[31]
  • "Annapolis Is Just the First Step"[32]
  • "West Bank First: It Won't Work"[33]
  • "For Israel and Hamas, a Case for Accommodation"[34]
  • "The Arab-Israeli conflict: Toward an Equitable and Durable Solution"[35]
  • "Israel's Lawyer"[36]

References

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  1. ^"Aaron David Miller - Global Affairs Analyst".CNN.Retrieved19 April2017.
  2. ^Miller, Aaron David; Sokolsky, Richard (October 1, 2017)."Should Rex Tillerson Resign?".Politico.RetrievedOctober 1,2017.Aaron David Miller is vice president for new initiatives and a distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center, and the author of The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President.
  3. ^Bronner, Ethan (April 16, 2008)."Advice After Two Decades of Arab-Israeli Diplomacy".The New York Times.
  4. ^Kristol, William(February 10, 2013)."Chuck Hagel: 'He's Jewish'".The Weekly Standard.Archived fromthe originalon August 4, 2018.RetrievedNovember 4,2017.
  5. ^Schmidt Horning, Susan (1998)."Miller, Ruth Ratner".Encyclopedia of Cleveland History.Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  6. ^"Our People".Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Archived fromthe originalon September 3, 2006.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  7. ^Piorkowski, Jeff (3 August 2018)."Shaker Heights High Hall of Fame inductees announced; young Jewish leaders to be recognized; more: Press Run".The Plain Dealer.Retrieved4 August2018.
  8. ^"Civil War Collection".Quod.lib.umich.edu. 2009-10-28.Retrieved2015-10-01.
  9. ^"Michigan in the Civil War: A Guide to the Resources in the Bentley Historical Library".University of Michigan.Archivedfrom the original on June 15, 2018.RetrievedAugust 9,2018.
  10. ^Miller, Aaron David (1980).Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy: Aaron David Miller: 9780807843246: Amazon: Books.University of North Carolina Press.ISBN0807843245.
  11. ^"The Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy".Yale.edu. Archived fromthe originalon 2015-10-01.Retrieved2015-10-01.
  12. ^"Middle East Policy Council (Forums - Archive)".Middle East Policy Council.Archived fromthe originalon February 24, 2008.RetrievedAugust 9,2018.
  13. ^Mather, John."Statement by Special Middle East Coordinator Ambassador Dennis Ross on Hebron Agreement; January 15, 1997".The Avalon Project at Yale Law School. Archived fromthe originalon May 31, 2008.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  14. ^Ross, Dennis (May 26, 2005).The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.New York City: Farrar, Straus, Giroux. p. 880.ISBN978-0-374-52980-2.
  15. ^"Travel Of Aaron Miller To Middle East"(Press release). Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State. August 9, 2001.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  16. ^"Address by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to the Seeds of Peace International Camp for Conflict Resolution"(Press release). Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State. August 13, 2001.RetrievedJune 24,2017.
  17. ^"Open Forum Speakers 2000 - present".U.S. Department of State.RetrievedAugust 9,2018.
  18. ^"Aaron David Miller ǀ Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar".Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. Archived fromthe originalon September 30, 2007.RetrievedAugust 9,2018.
  19. ^Miller, Aaron David (2008).The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace.New York City:Random House.ISBN978-1433210266.
  20. ^"Israel Prays and Holds Vigils For Ariel Sharon".CNN Saturday Morning News.January 7, 2006.CNN.
  21. ^"Yassar Arafat Dies".American Morning.November 11, 2004.CNN.
  22. ^"Arafat's Condition Worsens".Wolf Blitzer Reports.November 4, 2004.CNN.
  23. ^"President Bush, Secretary Rice Outline Plans for Cease-fire".The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.July 31, 2006.PBS.
  24. ^"No Obvious Successor to Arafat".Fox News.November 11, 2004.Archivedfrom the original on April 14, 2008.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  25. ^"Arafat Gloomy on Mid-East Talks".BBC.April 7, 2000.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  26. ^"The Current for November 27, 2007".The Current.November 27, 2007.CBC.
  27. ^"Annual Report 2005-2006"(PDF)(Press release). United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on May 16, 2008.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  28. ^"Past Medalists"(Press release). NECO. Archived fromthe originalon September 15, 2008.RetrievedMarch 20,2008.
  29. ^"The peacemakers Ladies' Home Journal".Seeds of Peace.2000.Lindsay Miller was in her early twenties when she spent a year in Jerusalem with her husband, Aaron David Miller, then a graduate student.
  30. ^Miller, Daniel (1 April 2016)."LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?".The Washington Post.Retrieved25 October2023.
  31. ^Miller, Aaron David (29 April 2007)."The Abandonment".The Washington Post.Retrieved25 October2023.
  32. ^Miller, Aaron David (November 26, 2007)."Annapolis is just the first step".Los Angeles Times.Archived fromthe originalon February 28, 2008.RetrievedAugust 9,2018.
  33. ^"Article Washington Post".The Washington Post.Archived fromthe originalon December 29, 2018.Retrieved2017-08-23.
  34. ^Malley, Robert; Miller, Aaron David (15 May 2006)."For Israel and Hamas, a Case for Accommodation".The Washington Post.Retrieved25 October2023.
  35. ^Miller, Aaron D. (July 2005)."Strategic Forum. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Toward an Equitable and Durable Solution".dtic.mil.Retrieved25 October2023.
  36. ^Miller, Aaron David (23 May 2005)."Israel's Lawyer".The Washington Post.Retrieved25 October2023.
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