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Dennis Ross

Dennis Ross is the author of several influential books, most recently Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny (PublicAffairs), with David Makovsky. Ambassador Ross held key foreign policy roles under Presidents Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama. He is currently counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He teaches at Georgetown’s Center for Jewish Civilization.

Winter 2024

Before & After October 7: A Symposium

David Biale , Mijal Bitton, Mikhal Dekel, Hillel Halkin, Anthony Julius, Shimrit Meir, Yiftach Ofek, Itamar Rabinovich, Dennis Ross, Arieh Saposnik, Leah Sarna, Daniel B. Schwartz, Anita Shapira, Michael Walzer, Ruth R. Wisse, David J. Wolpe

We asked distinguished friends and contributors a simple question: what did you believe before October 7 that you no longer believe?

Fall 2020

Tragedy and Power

Dennis Ross

Barry Gewen’s new book argues that Henry Kissinger's "hardheaded Realism” was born of his family’s tragic experience in Nazi Germany.

Spring 2017

A Life with Consequences

Dennis Ross

Yitzhak Rabin was a realist who saw peacemaking not as the source of security but as a further development that needed to be based upon security.