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Aaron David Miller
Senior Fellow, American Statecraft Program

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Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, focusing on U.S. foreign policy. He has written five books, including his most recent, The End of Greatness: Why America Can’t Have (and Doesn’t Want) Another Great President (Palgrave, 2014) and The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace (Bantam, 2008). He received his PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1977.

Between 1978 and 2003, Miller served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations. He also served as the deputy special Middle East coordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, senior member of the State Department’s policy planning staff, in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and in the office of the historian. He has received the department’s Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards.

Miller is a member of the  Council on Foreign Relations, and formerly served as resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has been a featured presenter at the World Economic Forum and leading U.S. universities. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as president of Seeds of Peace, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence. From 2006 to 2019, Miller was a public policy scholar; vice president for new initiatives, and director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Miller’s articles have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and Sirius XM radio.


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PhD in Middle East and U.S. diplomatic history, University of Michigan

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Covering Conflict: A Conversation With Clarissa Ward of CNN
November 12, 2024
10:00 AM — 10:45 AM EST

CNN's Clarissa Ward joins Aaron David Miller for a conversation on her extensive experience covering conflict across the world.

In The Media
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How Trump Handled Israel While in Office

A conversation about Former President Trump’s approach to Israel during his administration.

· October 29, 2024
Here and Now
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Explosive Triangle: Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah in Lebanon
October 23, 2024

Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon has broken a status quo that could carry potentially momentous consequences for a country and a region already marked by a year of conflict. Critical questions loom. Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Kim Ghattas and Ambassador David Satterfield for the next Carnegie Connects. 

In The Media
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Sinwar’s Death Gives Bibi a Boost—but Not Much More

Looking back over the past year, it’s hard to see now how Israel’s killing of the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack has fundamentally altered the trajectory of the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

· October 23, 2024
Foreign Policy
In The Media
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What Can a Lame-Duck U.S. President Do, Who's Facing a Mideast Crisis?

A conversation about what President Biden can do to deescalate conflicts in the Middle East.

· October 21, 2024
NPR’s Morning Edition
In The Media
in the media
Explaining the THAAD Anti-Missile Defense System and Why It’s Stoking Tensions in the Middle East

A conversation about about the U.S. troops and THAAD anti-missile defense system that have touched down in Israel.

· October 15, 2024
AirTalk with Larry Mantle
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Israel and Iran at War?
October 10, 2024

Join Aaron David Miller as he sits down with Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program, and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, to discuss how Iran perceives the current landscape and may act as the crisis unfolds. 

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Israel and Iran at War?

Aaron David Miller sits down with Senior Fellow Karim Sadjadpour and Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution, to discuss how Iran may act as the crisis in the Middle East evolves.

· October 10, 2024
In The Media
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‘Closer Than Ever’ to a ‘Major, Multi-front Regional War’

A conversation about the Israeli ground invasion of southern Lebanon and the potential ramifications.

· October 8, 2024
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports