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Preface
This paper was co-authored during six weeks at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, from mid-July to the end of August 2003. We are indebted to Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center, for recognizing the importance of shaping the Middle East regional environment in a way that makes it more conducive for peace, and for offering an ideal setting for the conduct of such an exploration. We are also grateful to Steven Miller, director of the Center's International Security Program, for helping to translate Graham's concept into reality and for inviting us to share our ideas within the framework of this project. We are also truly indebted to the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and to the Harold Grinspoon Foundation for providing the funds that were required to implement this project.
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the many members of the Belfer Center and the Kennedy School's administrative and technical staffs who guided us through the maze of the Harvard University bureaucracy. Without them, we would still be lost in one of the great university's "corridors of power."
Abdel Monem Said Aly has been the Director of Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo since 1994. For the past four years, he has also been a member of the Board at Al Ahram Foundation. During the summer of 2003, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He has written widely in both Arabic and English on world systems, Arab relations with the regional and global orders, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Shai Feldman is Head of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Board of Directors of Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. In 2001?2003, he also served as a member of the U.N. Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters. He is the author of numerous publications, including Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East (MIT Press, 1997) and Track-II Diplomacy: Lessons from the Middle East with Hussein Agha, Ahmad Khalidi, and Zeev Schiff (MIT Press, 2003).
