January 16, 2009

Middle East Peace through Jerusalem or Tehran?

Scholars focus on new model for negotiations

Writing in the New York Times, Ethan Bronner reviews a new collection of scholarly essays on how to resolve the various critical problems in the Middle East. The authors, from two US policy research groups, deal in “nuance and realism, despite small lapses.” They also happen to have close relations to the incoming Obama administration. They assert that the road to peace may lie not so much through Jerusalem, as through Tehran.


	Peace Architects
	Is there hope for what seems the world's most intractable problem? Through a series of interviews with experts and key players on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, David Hulme explores how identities and ideologies generate the passion to fuel this enduring struggle.
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