It is no secret that America's security objectives cannot be met by the military alone. Increasingly, US officials recognize that all elements of national power must be brought to bear in a more coordinated fashion. To be effective, that power must be rooted in deeper understanding of the cultures the US hopes to influence. Nowhere today is that more evident than in Iraq, says Marwan Muasher, who served as the Jordanian ambassador to the US from 1997 through 2001. But while there is widespread agreement that the federal government needs to be better organized and prepared to collectively cope with failed and failing states, acting on that knowledge is another matter. In a number of ways, State and Defense officials say they are working together more closely than ever. At the end of the ...
What it appears that [Marwan Muasher] did not fully appreciate was the degree of Israel's intransigence both regarding expansionism and the issue of compensation. He describes his futile efforts to arrange for compensation for Jordanians who lost property in the wars. Various subterfuges were employed to deflect claims. This should have not been surprising. Even a member of the Israeli Knesset, Tewfik Tubi, had had his property seized and put under the custodian of "absentee property." He was an "absentee" sitting as a member of the Knesset! The clear message, through a Byzantine rigamarole, was that, as SJ. Hayakawa once said with regard to the Panama Canal, "We stole it fair and square. Let us turn to the question of "the Arab center." Who is "the center" and what are their interests...
AMBASSADOR Dr. Marwan Muasher, the World Bank's senior vice president of external affairs, gave a superb lecture entitled "Toward a More Diverse and Pluralistic Arab Society," at the University of Maryland's Inn and Conference Center on Sept. 24.
TIME FOR MODERATES Marwan Muasher is a soft-spoken but plain-talking former diplomat from Jordan who campaigned tirelessly for decades for peace with Israel, which makes him a threat to the extremists in the Middle East.
As Islamists continue to gain strength throughout the Middle East, many Americans ask: "Where are the Arab moderates? For an answer, I recommend an important new book called "The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation," written by one of the most thoughtful analysts in the region, former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, who played a key role in drafting the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East "road map" backed by the White House.
The book title - "The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation" - conveys an academic exercise for eggheads who made a career of the Mideast peace process. It's about the peace process all right, but also a fascinating inside look by a 50-year-old Arab statesman, the first to write a book in English, who was privy to all the secret machinations since the age of 30. Marwan Muasher was the first Jordanian ambassador to Israel in 1995, where he quickly acquired movie star celebrity, and from there went straight to Washington as ambassador. He then served in quick succession as foreign minister, powerful head of the diwan (royal court), government spokesman, deputy prime minister before leaving government service to become senior vice president for international affairs at the World Bank. He ...
AMMAN, Jordan -- The Jordanian authorities on Friday arrested the first suspects in connection with Wednesday's multiple suicide bombings, as the last of the victims were buried at cemeteries in and around the capital. Jordan's deputy prime minister, Marwan Muasher, said security men had arrested 12 people, several of them Jordanians, in connection with the bombings, in which at least 57 people have died.
Far from it, the Middle East Ppartnership Initiative (MEPpI), the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and the National Security Council's (NSC) Directorate for Democracy and Human Rights still exist and are staffed with dedicated professionals who believe in the issue. [...] the National Endowment for Democracy, which Congress funds in part, is dedicated to the goal of promoting, enhancing, and ensuring democracy abroad. [...] the authors find that liberalization does not promote tolerance, and limited reforms are not always destabilizing. [...] their work clearly demonstrates that backtracking on reforms or cosmetic changes erodes regime legitimacy, which contributes to violence.
... Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation, by Marwan Muasher. New Haven, CT: Yale University Ppress, 20...
As Islamists continue to gain strength throughout the Middle East, many Americans ask: "Where are the Arab moderates? For an answer, I recommend an important new book called "The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation," written by one of the most thoughtful analysts in the region, former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher, who played a key role in drafting the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the Middle East "road map" backed by the White House.
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