Essays - Summer 2007

Remember Statecraft?

What diplomacy can do and why we need it more than ever

By Dennis Ross

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Dennis Ross served as President Clinton's chief negotiator to the ARabs and Israel's from 1993 to 2000. He was head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staf during the George H. W. Bush administration and served on the National Security Council staff and in the Pentagon during the Reagan administration. This essa is adapted from his new book, Statecraft:And How to Restore America's Standing in the World.