Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. He teaches U. S. Foreign Policy at Georgetown University, and his latest book is Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2013). He served as special assistant to the president in several posts from 2001 to 2009 in the Bush Administration. He also served in the Reagan and in the first Bush administrations. He holds a B. A. from Harvard and a J. D. from the Harvard Law School (1973).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 10, 2015.
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