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Jimmy Carter: Calculated Ambivalence

While teaching at Emory University since 1977, Prof. Stein played an important role in the organization and development of the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta. For more than a dozen years in the 1980s and 1990s, he advised former President
Carter about Middle Eastern matters, traveled with him to the region, and wrote a book with him. As a world-class scholar, Prof. Stein researched, wrote, and taught about American diplomacy in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, publishing Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace (1999). When Carter wrote the highly controversial book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, in 2006, Prof. Stein dramatically split with Carter for his false claims about Israel and American Jews. Prof. Stein will speak about how Carter and other presidents develop their attitudes toward Israel and the negotiating process, and particularly on the roots and evolution of Carter’s involvement in peace negotiations and the growth of his animus towards Israel over the years. Relevant Reading: Kenneth W. Stein, “My Problem with Jimmy Carter’s Book,” Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2007, pages 3–15.

Prof. Ken Stein’s expertise focuses on the origins of modern Israel, the conflict, Palestinian history, the Arab-Israeli negotiating process, and U.S.-Israeli relations. He is the Director of the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel (ISMI) at Emory University. There, he has been the recipient of awards for teaching excellence, life-long mentoring of students, and for internationalizing the curriculum. Prof. Stein’s fund-raising initiatives were responsible for bringing to Emory College sixteen visiting Israeli professors in the social sciences.