Kenneth W. Stein
Author, writer, teacher, and lecturer,
Kenneth W. Stein is the William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary
Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies at
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His scholarly publications include Mediniut
Amitza [Courageous Policy] (Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense Publishing
House, 2003); Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin,
and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace (New York: Routledge, 1999); Making
Peace Among Arabs and Israelis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Negotiating
Experience (Washington, United States Institute for Peace, 1991); The
Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin,
1985), in collaboration with former President Jimmy Carter; and The
Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939 (Chapel Hill, University
of North Carolina Press, 1984, 1985, and 2003). From 1996 through 1999,
he wrote the chapter on the "Arab-Israeli Peace Process" in Middle
East Contemporary Survey (Westview Press). For the 1999 and 2002
editions of the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, he wrote the
entries for "PLO," "1948 Israeli Independence War," "June
1967 War," "1973 October War," "Hamas," and "Intifadah."
Stein's scholarly articles have focused
on the origins of modern Israel, Palestinian social history, the British
Mandate in Palestine, the Arab-Israeli negotiating process, American
foreign policy toward the region, and the modern Arab world. His most
recent contributions are "Arafat ist nicht Sadat (Arafat is not
Sadat)," Internationale Politik, No. 10, Vol. 58, October
2003; "La Doctrine Bush au Moyen-Orient: continuité politique
et engagement selectif (The Bush Doctrine is Selective Engagement:
Continuity in American Foreign Policy Toward the Middle East)," Politique Étrangère, (Paris) Javier-Mars 2002; "American Mediation of the Palestinian-Israeli
Conflict: A Positive Assessment of the April 2002 Powell Mission," Rivista
Italiana di Geopolitica, (Rome) May 2002; and "Die Bush-Doktrin:
Selektives Engagement in Nahen Osten," Internationale Politik (Berlin),
Volume 3, 2002.
Stein writes a monthly column on Middle
Eastern issues in addition to serving as a frequent commentator for
the print and electronic media. He is a dynamic speaker and recipient
of multiple scholarly awards, including Emory's 2002 Marion V. Creekmore
Award for his quarter century commitment to the internationalization
of Emory College's curriculum. His undergraduate course, "History,
Politics and Diplomacy of the Arab Israeli Conflict," is one of
Emory's most popular courses.
Dr. Stein received his undergraduate
BA degree from Franklin and Marshall College and two Masters and his
doctoral degree from The University of Michigan. He was trained at
Michigan in medieval Islamic and modern Middle Eastern history, modern
Jewish history, British Empire and Commonwealth, Middle Eastern politics,
and did his doctoral work on Arabs and Jews in the British Mandatory
Palestine.
Since coming to Emory in 1977, he founded and developed the International Studies Center, was the first director of the Carter Center (1983 1986), established the Middle East Research Program (1992) and the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel (1997). From 1982 to 1996, he was former President Jimmy Carter's advisor on Middle Eastern affairs and remained the Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center until December 2006.
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