Dennis Ross
Dennis B. Ross (* November 26 1948 in San Francisco, California) is an American diplomat who was best known for his role as a negotiator in the peace process in the 1990s.
Life
Career start
Ross studied at the University of California at Los Angeles ( UCLA) Political Science and his PhD in 1982 on political decision-making processes in the Soviet Union. In the 1980s, he held various posts in the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Security (National Security Council) held. Among other things, he served from 1989 to 1992 as Director of Policy Planning.
Despite his background as an expert on Soviet policy ( he had worked as a director of the Political Department at the State Department a major role in shaping the American Ostpolitik and German reunification ) Ross had also dealt with the issues of the conflict since the beginning of his career. This culminated in 1988 in his appointment as Chief Negotiator for the Middle East peace process under President George Bush. Ross maintained this position even under Bill Clinton at and participated in the negotiation of the various Israeli-Palestinian agreements, such as to Oslo I in 1993, to Oslo II in 1995 or the Hebron Agreement 1997. With mixed success, he also tried to Jordan to bring Israel and Syria to the negotiating table, where only the negotiations with Jordan led to a result ( Israel-Jordan peace treaty in 1994 ). 2001 Ross gave up his government post.
As a result, Ross was until July 2004, director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank in Washington. Since then, he has held the post of adviser there. Ross entertains a lively publishing activity in American and international magazines on current issues related to the development of Israeli- Palestinian relations.
In August 2004 he published under the title The Missing Peace an autobiographical essay on supporting the Middle East peace process. These repeated, especially in recent years strengthened its inherent critique of the inability of Yasser Arafat, to achieve a durable peace settlement with Israel. In June 2007, followed by his book Statecraft, in which he develops a foreign policy realpolitik following Plato, Niccolo Machiavelli and Otto von Bismarck, in practical terms to a ideology -driven policy.
In advance of the 2008 presidential election Ross appeared as supporters of Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
Iran
In September 2008, Ross recorded as a member of a created by the Bipartisan Policy Center report on other possible approaches towards Iran. Starting point of the study is the finding that the previous policy of gradual, always accompanied by threats of war, economic and financial measures has not brought the desired success. Consequently, it is necessary to win as much of the states of the world for a rapid intensification of the previous strategy. This should be done at the earliest with the inauguration of the new president.
On November 10, 2011 Ross announced his resignation after he had performed the duties longer than originally planned. Since then he has worked as a consultant unbzahlter. According to the mirror Ross was in February confidential talks at the Chancellery and the Foreign Ministry in Berlin.