Aaron David Miller

Background

Miller was born to a Jewish family in Cleveland, Ohio, the eldest son of Ruth (née Ratner) and Samuel H. Miller. He attended Shaker Heights High School, graduating in 1967.

Education

Miller began his undergraduate career at Tulane University and spent a semester at the University of Warwick on a history honors exchange program before graduating from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in 1971. Continuing on toward an M.A. in American Civil War history, Miller changed fields to Middle Eastern and American diplomacy and spent 1973 to 1974 in Jerusalem studying Arabic and Hebrew. He completed his PhD in 1977. His dissertation, Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949 was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1980, and in paperback in 1991.

Government career

Miller entered the Department of State in November 1978 as an historian in the Bureau of Public Affairs Office of the Historian, where he edited the documentary series Foreign Relations of the United States. In November 1980, he worked as an analyst for Lebanon and the Palestinians in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). Awarded an International Affairs Fellowship by the Council on Foreign Relations, he spent 1982–83 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the CFR in New York, where he wrote his second book, The PLO and the Politics of Survival. The following year he returned to INR and served a temporary tour at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, before joining the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff in 1985. Between 1985 and 1993, Miller advised Secretaries of State George Shultz and James Baker.

He helped Baker plan the Madrid peace conference of October 1991.

In June 1993, Miller was appointed Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator. For the next seven years, he worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. role in Arab–Israeli negotiations through the Oslo process, multilateral Arab–Israeli economic summits, the Israeli–Jordanian peace treaty, and final status negotiations between Israel and Syria and between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David in July 2000. Miller continued work on Arab–Israeli issues in the George W. Bush administration, serving as the senior advisor on Arab–Israeli negotiations in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to Secretary of State Colin Powell. He resigned from the Department of State in January 2003 to become president of Seeds of Peace.

After government

In January 2006, Miller became a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he planned and participated in programs on the Middle East and Arab–Israeli issues. In 2008, he completed his fourth book, The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab–Israeli Peace, an insider's look based on 160 interviews with former presidents, secretaries of state, Arabs, and Israelis, American Jews, Arabs, and evangelical Christians on why America succeeded and failed in Arab–Israeli diplomacy over the past 40 years.

Media and public speaking

Throughout his career, Miller has made frequent media and speaking appearances as an expert on Arab–Israeli and Middle Eastern issues, including on CNN, PBS, Fox News, the BBC, the CBC, and Al Jazeera.

Awards

Miller has received the Department of State's Distinguished, Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards. In 1998 he was on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Governing Council. In 2005, he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Personal life

Miller lives with his wife, Lindsay. They have two adult children, Jenny and Danny. Danny Miller is the founder of the Psychedelic Society of Brooklyn.

Bibliography

Books

• Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939–1949 (Paperback, University of North Carolina Press, 1991)
• PLO: Politics of Survival (Paperback, Praeger Press, 1983)
• The Arab States and the Palestine Question: Between Ideology and Self-Interest (Paperback, Praeger Press, 1986)
• The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Hardcover, Bantam Books, 2008)
• The End of Greatness: Why America Can't Have (and Doesn't Want) Another Great President (Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

Articles

• "The Abandonment: How the Bush Administration Left Israelis and Palestinians to Their Fate"
• "Annapolis Is Just the First Step"
• "West Bank First: It Won't Work"
• "For Israel and Hamas, a Case for Accommodation"
• "The Arab-Israeli conflict: Toward an Equitable and Durable Solution"
• "Israel's Lawyer"

References

References

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2. (October 1, 2017). "Should Rex Tillerson Resign?".
3. Bronner, Ethan. (April 16, 2008). "Advice After Two Decades of Arab-Israeli Diplomacy". [[The New York Times]].
4. Kristol, William. (February 10, 2013). "Chuck Hagel: 'He's Jewish'". [[The Weekly Standard]].
5. Schmidt Horning, Susan. (1998). "Miller, Ruth Ratner". Case Western Reserve University.
6. "Our People". Forest City Enterprises, Inc..
7. (3 August 2018). "Shaker Heights High Hall of Fame inductees announced; young Jewish leaders to be recognized; more: Press Run". [[The Plain Dealer]].
8. (2009-10-28). "Civil War Collection". Quod.lib.umich.edu.
9. "Michigan in the Civil War: A Guide to the Resources in the Bentley Historical Library". University of Michigan.
10. (1980). "Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy: Aaron David Miller: 9780807843246: Amazon.com: Books". University of North Carolina Press.
11. "The Avalon Project : Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy". Yale.edu.
12. "Middle East Policy Council (Forums - Archive)". [[Middle East Policy Council]].
13. Miller, Aaron David. (2020-02-27). "I'm a veteran Middle East peace negotiator. Trump's plan is the most dangerous I've ever seen.".
14. Mather, John. "Statement by Special Middle East Coordinator Ambassador Dennis Ross on Hebron Agreement; January 15, 1997". The Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
15. Ross, Dennis. (May 26, 2005). "The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace". Farrar, Straus, Giroux.
16. (August 9, 2001). "Travel Of Aaron Miller To Middle East". Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State.
17. (August 13, 2001). "Address by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to the Seeds of Peace International Camp for Conflict Resolution". Office of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State.
18. "Open Forum Speakers 2000 - present". U.S. Department of State.
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20. Bronner, Ethan. (2008-04-17). "Book Review: The Much Too Promised Land". The New York Times.
21. "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace - Foreign Policy Research Institute".
22. Miller, Aaron David. (2008). "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace". [[Random House]].
23. "Israel Prays and Holds Vigils For Ariel Sharon".
24. "Yassar Arafat Dies".
25. "Arafat's Condition Worsens".
26. "President Bush, Secretary Rice Outline Plans for Cease-fire".
27. (November 11, 2004). "No Obvious Successor to Arafat".
28. (April 7, 2000). "Arafat Gloomy on Mid-East Talks".
29. "The Current for November 27, 2007".
30. "Why does the US act as Israel's lawyer?".
31. Empire. "Aaron David Miller: 'An effective broker'".
32. (2013-11-11). "“We Can't Fix It, And We Can't Leave": An Interview With Aaron David Miller - The Yale Review Of International Studies".
33. Gellman, Barton. (1998-01-19). "HOLOCAUST MUSEUM TO INVITE ARAFAT". [[The Washington Post]].
34. "Past Medalists". NECO.
35. (2000). "The peacemakers Ladies' Home Journal".
36. Miller, Daniel. (1 April 2016). "LSD could make you smarter, happier and healthier. Should we all try it?". The Washington Post.
37. Miller, Aaron David. (29 April 2007). "The Abandonment". The Washington Post.
38. Miller, Aaron David. (November 26, 2007). "Annapolis is just the first step".
39. "Article Washington Post". [[The Washington Post]].
40. (15 May 2006). "For Israel and Hamas, a Case for Accommodation". The Washington Post.
41. (July 2005). "Strategic Forum. The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Toward an Equitable and Durable Solution".
42. Miller, Aaron David. (23 May 2005). "Israel's Lawyer". The Washington Post.