Troubled Triangle

Since early 2009, it has seemed that the once-warm relations between Turkey and Israel have reached crisis point. To complicate matters further, both countries are close partners of the United States. In this timely title, a group of leading scholar-practitioners from all three countries jointly explore this crisis. In April 2011, University of Virginia politics professor and veteran Middle East analyst brought leading scholar-practitioners from Israel, Turkey, and the United States to a one-day gathering at the University of Virginia. Their task: To unravel and try to understand the tangle of accusations, sensitivities, fears, and misunderstandings that had arisen among policymakers in these three capitals. is a record of the deliberations among these experts, that has been edited by Dr. Quandt. Participants in the colloquium and in the project of producing this very timely volume include:

• , an expert on Turkish affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Bernard L. and Bertha F. Cohen Professor at Lehigh University.
• , a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Israel, and previously the head of strategic planning for the Israeli military's general staff.
• , an acclaimed analyst of Middle East affairs who is chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Vermont.
• , an assistant professor at Istanbul Bilgi University and a 2008 PhD from U.Va.'s Department of Politics, where her dissertation compared the records of Greece and Turkey on democratization, civil-military relations, and business-government relations.
• , President of the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, DC, and previously vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council.
• , Deputy Assistant Secretary in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, with responsibility for issues related to Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, and the Caucasus.
• , Senior Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Middle East Task Force at the New America Foundation and a member of the Israeli government team that conducted peace talks with the Palestinians in early 2001.
• , Director of Research at the U.Va's Center for International Studies and a political scientist who specializes in international power dynamics.
• , Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Istanbul Kadir Has University and co-author of a recent report on rebuilding Turkish-American relations.
• , President of the National Iranian American Council and author of the widely acclaimed (2007), and