Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Ross (born November 26, 1948 in San Francisco , California ) is an American diplomat who was best known for his role as a negotiator in the Middle East peace process in the 1990s.
Life
Career start
Ross studied political science at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and received his doctorate in 1982 on political decision-making in the Soviet Union . In the 1980s, he held various posts in the Ministry of Defense , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Security ( National Security Council held). Among other things, he was Director of Policy Planning from 1989 to 1992 .
middle East
Despite his background as an expert on Soviet politics (among other things, as Director of the Political Department in the State Department, he was instrumental in shaping American Ostpolitik and German reunification ), Ross had also dealt with issues of the Middle East conflict from the start of his career . This culminated in his appointment as chief negotiator for the Middle East peace process under President George Bush in 1988 . Ross maintained this position under Bill Clinton and was involved in the negotiations on the various Israeli - Palestinian agreements, such as Oslo I in 1993, Oslo II 1995 or the Hebron Agreement 1997. He also tried Jordan with mixed success and to bring Syria to the negotiating table with Israel, whereby only the negotiations with Jordan led to a result ( Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty 1994). 2001 Ross gave up his government post.
As a result, Ross was director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy , a think tank in Washington, until July 2004 . Since then he has held the post of advisor there. Ross has published a lot in American and international magazines on current issues related to the development of Israeli-Palestinian relations.
In August 2004 he published an autobiographical treatise on the Middle East peace process under the title The Missing Peace . Above all, this reiterates the criticism he has made in recent years of Yasser Arafat's inability to achieve a lasting peace solution with Israel. His book Statecraft followed in June 2007 , in which he unfolds a realpolitik foreign policy following Plato , Niccolò Machiavelli and Otto von Bismarck in practical terms compared to an ideology-driven policy.
In the run-up to the 2008 presidential election , Ross appeared as a supporter of Democratic candidate Barack Obama .
Iran
In September 2008, Ross distinguished himself as a member of a report prepared by the Bipartisan Policy Center on further possible courses of action against Iran . The starting point of the study is the finding that the previous policy of gradual economic and financial measures, repeatedly accompanied by threats of war, has not brought the desired success. Consequently, it is a matter of winning over as large a part of the world's states as possible to rapidly tighten the previous strategy. This should happen at the earliest with the inauguration of the new president.
On November 10, 2011, Ross announced his resignation after holding the post longer than originally planned. Since then he has worked as an unpaid consultant. According to the Spiegel , Ross was in February for confidential talks at the Chancellery and Foreign Ministry in Berlin.
Works
- Statecraft: And how to Restore America's Standing in the World . Farrar Strauss & Giroux, New York (NY) 2007, ISBN 0-374-29928-5 .
- The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace . Farrar Strauss & Giroux, New York (NY) 2004, ISBN 0-374-19973-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Massimo Calabresi: Obama's Conservative Mideast Pick . In: Time.com. July 16, 2008, accessed January 11, 2009 . (English) - Article about Ross' support for Obama
- ↑ http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org
- ^ Daniel Coats , Charles Robb , Michael Makovsky: Meeting the challenge. US policy toward Iranian nuclear development . (No longer available online.) September 2008, archived from the original on October 27, 2008 ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Daniel Coats, Charles Robb: Stopping a Nuclear Tehran . (No longer available online.) In: Washington Post. October 23, 2008, archived from the original on November 6, 2008 ; Retrieved January 11, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Middle East Representative Ross gives up office. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . November 10, 2011, accessed November 11, 2011 .
- ↑ Obama's Middle East Representative Leaves - Spon, November 10, 2011
- ↑ Press spokeswoman for the US State Department ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 6/2012 of February 6, 2012 - Iran: Obama adviser Dennis Ross warns of the consequences of an atomic bomb for the mullah regime
Web links
- Dennis Ross in nndb (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ross, Dennis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ross, Dennis B. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco , California |