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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.
Nicholas Grossman is a political science
professor at the University of Illinois and senior editor of
Arc Digital. He is is an
international-relations professor at the University of Illinois and
the author of Drones
and Terrorism.
Follow him on Twitter @ngrossman81.