CMC International Relations Professor Available for Commentary:
PROFESSOR EDWARD HALEY OFFERS INSIGHTS
INTO POST-ARAFAT PALESTINE;
LESS REVOLUTION, MORE PRAGMATIC LEADERSHIP POSSIBLE
Claremont McKenna College international relations professor P. Edward Haley is available for commentary on a post-Arafat Palestine and the potential impact of Palestinian leadership change on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Haley, the W.M. Keck Professor of International Strategic Studies and interim director of the Center for the Study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights at CMC, suggests that Arafat's death will result in a generational change in Palestinian leadership one that could end the current phase of revolutionary focus and open the door for new, more pragmatic leaders.
He suggests that the leadership change offers the Bush Administration a "precious opportunity to reengage and attempt to lead the parties to a settlement. Whether the opportunity is seized or lost will turn on the willingness of the new Bush II administration to learn from the strategy of President Bush, Sr., and his Secretary of State James Baker, who succeeded in moving the parties toward peace by pressuring both sides, Israel as well as the Palestinians, to deal with one another constructively."
Haley earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at Stanford University, and his doctorate at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He writes and comments frequently on international relations issues. His books include Qadaffi and the United States Since 1969, and he is currently completing work on his latest book, Strategies of Dominance: U.S. Strategies Since the End of the Cold War.