Scott Lasensky
Senior Research Associate, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
Middle East | U.S. Foreign Policy | Arab-Israeli Relations | U.S. Foreign Aid
Phone: (202) 429-3839
E-mail: slasensky@usip.org
Dr. Scott Lasensky is a senior research associate in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C.
His new book, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, has been called a "tour de force" and a must-read for "today's leadership (and tomorrow's)". Lasensky's work focuses on issues relating to the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy toward the region. He has lectured and written extensively on the Arab-Israeli conflict and on America’s role in the Middle East. He is also the director of the Institute’s "Iraq and Its Neighbors" project.
He has taught at Georgetown University and Mount Holyoke College, and served as a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Brookings Institution. He is a frequent commentator on BBC, CNN, Fox News, NPR, and other major media outlets. He has been published in the International Herald Tribune, Middle East Journal, Political Science Quarterly, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, A-Sharq Al-Awsat, Beirut Daily Star, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and Middle East Review of International Affairs, among other publications.
A recipient of the Yitzhak Rabin-Shimon Peres Peace Award from Tel Aviv University (1999), Lasensky is a graduate of UCLA and earned his Ph.D. in international relations from Brandeis University.
Multimedia
NPR interviews Lasensky on the Bush administration's move toward conducting talks with Iran and Syria, and what these talks mean for Iraq and its neighbors. (March 2007)
NPR interviews Lasensky on why Iraq's neighboring countries have a stake in Iraq's conflict. (October 2006)
Lasensky discusses the Middle East ceasfire on KCBS. (August 2006, MP3)
Lasensky discusses next steps in the Middle East on KCBS. (July 2006, MP3)
Publications:
- Dealing With Damascus: Seeking a Greater Return on U.S.-Syria Relations, co-authored with Mona Yacoubian. Council on Foreign Relations, June 2008.
- Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East (USIP Press, April 2008).
- International Intervention in Gaza: Options and Obstacles
USIPeace Briefing (June 2007)
- Make Sharm el-Sheikh the Turning Point for Region Post Global (May 1, 2007).
- Jordan and Iraq: Between Cooperation and Crisis
Special Report (December 2006).
- Dollars and Diplomacy: Foreign Aid and the Palestinian Question
USIPeace Briefing (August 2006).
- Syria and Political Change II
USIPeace Briefing (March 2006).
- "Jordan's Role in Iraq is Modest, but Positive," The Daily Star (December 19, 2005).
- Syria and Political Change
USIPeace Briefing (December 2005).
- "Before this Mideast moment slips away," Haaretz (June 17, 2005).
- "Chequebook Diplomacy: The US, the Oslo Process and the Role of Foreign Aid," Aid, Diplomacy and Facts on Ground, edited by Micheal Keating et. al. (Chatham House, 2005).
- "Paying for Peace: The Oslo Process and the Limits of U.S. Foreign Aid," Middle East Journal (Spring, 2005).
- "An Opening at Sharm el-Sheikh," with Phebe Marr. The Daily Star (November 20, 2004).
- "How to Help Palestinian Refugees Today," (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 2003).
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