Critical to each other's foreign policy and security interests in the region, the United States and Iran have been locked in confrontation for over three decades, a period that has seen only limited contact and little mutual understanding. With a new administration in Washington and political uncertainty in the aftermath of the contested Iranian presidential elections in June, there is renewed debate in American policymaking circles about the nature, efficacy, and utility of negotiating with the Islamic Republic.

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Critical to each other's foreign policy and security interests in the region, the United States and Iran have been locked in confrontation for over three decades, a period that has seen only limited contact and little mutual understanding. With a new administration in Washington and political uncertainty in the aftermath of the contested Iranian presidential elections in June, there is renewed debate in American policymaking circles about the nature, efficacy, and utility of negotiating with the Islamic Republic. As the nation contemplates ways to address the U.S.-Iranian crisis, the question of how to negotiate with Iran has been largely overlooked. Please join Ambassador John Limbert, author of

Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History

(USIP Press, September 2009), and panelists for a discussion on the approaches to and prospects for U.S.-Iranian negotiations. The latest volume in the Institute's cross-cultural negotiation series, 

Negotiating with Iran: Wrestling the Ghosts of History

 will be available for purchase at the event.

Speakers

  • Ambassador John Limbert
    Distinguished Professor, United States Naval
  • Farideh Farhi
    Professor, University of Hawaii
  • Kenneth M. Pollack
    Director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
  • Marvin Kalb, Moderator
    U.S. Institute of Peace Visiting Expert
  • Richard Solomon, Introductions
    President, U.S. Institute of Peace
  • Steve Riskin, Introductions
    Senior Program Officer, Grant and Fellowship Program, U.S. Institute of Peace

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