SUPD Presents: Aaron David Miller on Israel- Palestine War

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008). He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977.

Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in the office of the historian. He has received the department’s Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.

Miller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly served as resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been a featured presenter at the World Economic Forum and leading U.S. universities. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. From 2006 to 2019, Miller was a public policy scholar; vice president for new initiatives, and director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Miller is a global affairs analyst for CNN. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, USAToday, and CNN.com. He is a frequent commentator on NPR, BBC, and Sirius XM radio.

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0:00.0	Hey guys welcome to another episode of can you talk real quick this is where I reach out to somebody and have a quick
0:07.0	Conversation try to get it up as fast as I can for you without all of the extra news and
0:13.5	Production other than this beautiful song that we love so much by John Carroll and today
0:18.7	I've got one of the most credible experts on the Middle East that you can find who's also extremely articulate
0:24.0	Passionate has a lot of humanity and takes this conflict deeply personally Aaron David Miller is one of the best experts
0:32.0	I can talk to when it comes to anything about the Middle East how he's got a PhD in Middle East and US diplomatic history from University of Michigan
0:39.0	Aaron is now a senior fellow at the very prestigious Carnegie Endowment for international peace
0:44.0	He's a member of the council on forum relations a former resident scholar at Georgetown
0:49.0	Global affairs analyst for CNN he's written for the New York Times Washington Post NPR and is a frequent commentator
0:56.0	On television and has been on anything that I've hosted for as long as I've hosted it he's a historian and analyst
1:03.0	A negotiator and he's advised both Republican and Democratic Secretaries of State because in 1978 to 2003
1:10.0	He worked at the State Department doing just that so he has been around the block always a great person to talk to
1:18.0	Now I've talked to several folks about this Jonathan Alter Nair Ahak of course David Rothkopf and next you'll hear a conversation with
1:26.0	Washa Had Ali after I post this one with Aaron David Miller
1:29.0	I'm trying to give you as wide as spectrum as I can on these issues I hope to talk to more folks about this including
1:36.0	Dino Bidala folks in Israel and Gaza West Bank wherever we can find them but we also do want to do a whole bunch of other
1:44.0	Important issues that matter to you your family your community your country and your planet. So tomorrow I've got the brilliant David or joining me to talk about his new book
1:54.0	Called democracy in a hotter time climate change and democratic transformation a collection of essays he's so good and I can't wait to talk with him
2:03.0	But right now it's time to get to Aaron David Miller to let's do it
2:09.0	All right many of you asked me to get him I got him he's been everywhere so I'm going to try to ask him some questions maybe he hasn't been asked
2:17.0	Aaron David Miller thank you so much for joining me I we talk often about all kinds of different foreign policy issues we have over the years
2:24.0	But I know you like to start at least this one and most of them with kind of a humility and sadness so go ahead
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